The following commentary features director Mike Leigh and was recorded in 1999.

In this conversation, recorded in London in 2010, director Mike Leigh and musical director Gary Yershon discuss the work of Gilbert and Sullivan and adapting it for the screen.

The following sequences contain material that director Mike Leigh deleted from the final cut of TOPSY-TURVY. Although pleased with the scenes, he was under pressure to reduce the length of the film. The scenes are presented from a work copy of the film, with the surrounding footage included for c...

In this twenty-six-minute short film from 1992, written by Jim Broadbent and directed by Mike Leigh, Broadbent plays the twenty-third Earl of Leete, who takes a film crew on a tour of his estate. As he relates his family history, the crew begins to realize that all is not as it seems. It was duri...

The following featurette, produced in 1999, includes interviews with director Mike Leigh, stars Jim Broadbent and Allan Corduner, and other members of the cast.

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Directed by Mike Leigh • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall

The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh’s extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo’s legendary 1885 comic opera THE MIKADO. Jim Broadbent and All...