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Handel's Last Chance (1996)

51m

Running Time

Handel's Last Chance (1996)

Name: Handel's Last Chance
Released: 1996-01-01

51m

Running Time

Plot.

As the film opens, the career of George Frideric Handel is in tatters. Invited to Dublin to present the premiere of a new choral work, The Messiah, he can't find singers adequate for the job. A boy who steals a chicken runs into Mr. Handel. The boy's Mother was NOT an employee at the Cathedral, she cleaned and ironed shirts, so the mother "bribes" Mr. Handel with non-starched shirts to save her boy from being in jail. The choir sucks until the washer lady's son is discovered by Handel.

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Cast & Crew.

Milan Cheylov

Director

Leon Pownall

George Friedrich Handel

Tod Fennell

Jamie O'Flaherty

Gerard Parkes

Jonathan Swift

Seana McKenna

Mary Margaret O'Flaherty

Cody Jones

Wee Hugh Brannigan

Jennifer Rockett

Miss Abbott

Jan Nemejovský

Heaster

Marek Ťapák

Constable

David Devine

Writer

Marlene Matthews

Writer

Richard Mozer

Producer

David Perrault

Cinematographer

Michael Pacek

Editor

Anne Tait

CastingDirector

Cameron Porteous

ProductionDesigner

Details.

Release Date

January 1, 1996

Status

Released

Running Time

51m

Last updated: 2025-02-11

This Movie Is About.

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Wiki.

Handel's Last Chance is a 1996 television film created by David Devine and Richard Mozer for HBO Original Films of New York and directed by Milan Cheylov.

A Canadian-Slovakian co-production, it stars Leon Pownall, Tod Fennell, Gerard Parkes, and Seana McKenna.

It follows the fictional background of the premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Messiah in 1742, where a Dublin street boy aids the composer with his singing talent, and the composer in turn changes the boy's life by bringing out his conscience and self-confidence.

The film is the last instalment in Devine Entertainment's six-film series The Composers' Specials, after Bizet's Dream, Bach's Fight for Freedom, Strauss: The King of 3/4 Time, Liszt's Rhapsody, and Rossini's Ghost.