---
title: 'The Mikado (1939)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Victor Schertzinger'
released: '1939-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 90
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Music'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United Kingdom'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-mikado-1939'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031650/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Mikado (1939)

1939 · 90 min · Comedy, Music, Romance · United Kingdom


## Synopsis

The Mikado is a 1939 British musical comedy film based on Gilbert and Sullivan's 1885 comic opera The Mikado. Directed by 	Victor Schertzinger and shot in Technicolor, the film stars Martyn Green as Ko-Ko, Sydney Granville as Pooh-Bah, the American singer Kenny Baker as Nanki-Poo and Jean Colin as Yum-Yum. In addition to Green and Granville, many of the other leads and choristers, as well as the film's conductor and adapter, Geoffrey Toye, were or had been members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Victor Schertzinger](https://cinepixo.com/people/victor-schertzinger)
- **Screenplay:** [W. S. Gilbert](https://cinepixo.com/people/w-s-gilbert)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Arthur Sullivan](https://cinepixo.com/people/arthur-sullivan)
- **Producer:** [Geoffrey Toye](https://cinepixo.com/people/geoffrey-toye)
- **Director of Photography:** [Bernard Knowles](https://cinepixo.com/people/bernard-knowles), [William V. Skall](https://cinepixo.com/people/william-v-skall)
- **Editor:** [Gene Milford](https://cinepixo.com/people/gene-milford)

## Cast

- [Jean Colin](https://cinepixo.com/people/jean-colin)
- [Martyn Green](https://cinepixo.com/people/martyn-green)
- [Elizabeth Nickell-Lean](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-nickell-lean)
- [Kenny Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/kenny-baker-2)
- [John Barclay](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-barclay-2)
- [Gregory Stroud](https://cinepixo.com/people/gregory-stroud)
- [Sydney Granville](https://cinepixo.com/people/sydney-granville)

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