The Threepenny Opera [2 Discs] [Criterion Collection]

In this adaptation of Bertoldt Brecht and Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Rudolf Forster stars as robber captain MacHeath -- aka Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife -- who falls in love with Polly, daughter of beggar king Peachum. Despising MacHeath, Peachum plots the thief's downfall.