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|---|---|---|
![]() | Peter Brook | |
| Starring | ||
|---|---|---|
| Laurence Olivier | Captain MacHeath | |
| Hugh Griffith | The Beggar | |
| George Rose | 1st Turnkey | |
| Stuart Burge | 1st Prisoner | |
| Cyril Conway | 2nd Prisoner | |
| Gerald Lawson | 3rd Prisoner | |
| Dorothy Tutin | Polly Peachum | |
| George Devine | Peachum | |
| Mary Clare | Mrs. Peachum | |
| Edward Pryor | Filch | |
| Athene Seyler | Mrs. Trapes | |
| Stanley Holloway | Mr. Lockit | |
| Daphne Anderson | Lucy Lockit | |
| Eric Pohlmann | Inn Keeper | |
| Yvonne Furneaux | Jenny Diver | |
| Kenneth Williams | Jack the Pot Boy | |
| Sandra Dorne | Sukey Tawdrey | |
| Laurence Naismith | Matt of the Mint | |
| Max Brent | A Drunkard | |
| Mercy Haystead | Dolly Trull | |
| Patricia Raine | Mrs. Slammekin | |
| Jocelyn James | Molly Brazen | |
| Isabel George | Mrs. Vixen | |
| Helen Christie | Betty Doxey | |
| John Kidd | 2nd Turnkey | |
| Herbert C. Walton | 3rd Turnkey | |
| Eugene Leahy | 4th Turnkey | |
| Edgar Norfolk | 5th Turnkey | |
| Oliver Hunter | 2nd Chairman | |
| Madge Brindley | Gin Seller | |
| Felix Felton | Governor | |
| Denis Cannan | John, the Footman | |
| Margot Grahame | The Actress | |
| Tamba Allen | Negro Page | |
| Terence Greenidge | Chaplain | |
| Billy Wells | Hangman | |
| Adele Leigh | Singing voice | |
| Jennifer Vyvyan | Singing voice | |
| Edith Coats | Singing voice | |
| Joan Cross | Singing voice | |
| John Cameron | Singing voice | |
| Bruce Boyce | Singing voice | |
| Alanna Boyce | Urchin | |
| John Baker | ||





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UK release date: 5th October 1953
Sweden release date: 16th October 1953
Denmark release date: 18th November 1953
Japan release date: 23rd November 1953
France release date: 17th March 1954
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