The Beggar's Opera is a 1953 Technicolor film version of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera directed by Peter Brook and starring Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway and others.
 Olivier and Holloway do their own singing in this film, but Dorothy Tutin and several others were dubbed.
 This was Laurence Olivier's only film musical.
The Stranger Wore a Gun is a 1953 Technicolor Western film directed by Andre DeToth, and starring Randolph Scott and Claire Trevor.
 Based on the short story "Yankee Gold" by John W. Cunningham, the film is about a former spy who moves to Arizona to join a gold robbery, but reconsiders and decides to change his life.
 The film is one of the first 3-D western movies; it earned an estimated $1.6 million at the North American box office in 1953.
 The supporting cast features Joan Weldon, George Macready, Alfonso Bedoya, Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
The Goldwyn Follies is a 1938 Technicolor film written by Ben Hecht, Sid Kuller, Sam Perrin and Arthur Phillips, with music by George Gershwin, Vernon Duke, and Ray Golden, and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
 Some sources credit Kurt Weill as one of the composers, but this is apparently incorrect.
 "The Goldwyn Follies" was the first Technicolor film produced by Samuel Goldwyn.
The Naked Spur is a 1953 Technicolor American Western film directed by Anthony Mann and starring James Stewart, Janet Leigh, and Robert Ryan.
 Written by Sam Rolfe and Harold Jack Bloom, the film is about a bounty hunter who tries to bring a murderer to justice, and is forced to accept the help of two strangers who are less than trustworthy.
 The original music score was composed by Bronislau Kaper and the cinematography was by William C. Mellor.
 "The Naked Spur" was filmed on location in Durango and the San Juan Mountains in Colorado, and Lone Pine, California.
 The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay—a rare honor for a Western.
 This is the third Western film collaboration between Anthony Mann and James Stewart.
Tumbleweed is a 1953 Technicolor Western film directed by Nathan Juran starring Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson and Chill Wills.
 It was also known by the alternative title of Three Were Renegades; the title of the 1937 novel "Three Were Thoroughbreds" by Kenneth Taylor Perkins the film was based on which had been previously filmed as the 1948 film "Relentless".
John Gay ( ; 30 June 1685 – 4 December 1732) was an English poet and dramatist and member of the Scriblerus Club.
 He is best remembered for "The Beggar's Opera" (1728), a ballad opera.
 The characters, including Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, became household names.
Young Bess is a 1953 Technicolor biographical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about the early life of Elizabeth I, from her turbulent childhood to the eve of her accession to the throne of England.
 The film starred Jean Simmons and Stewart Granger as Thomas Seymour, with Charles Laughton as Elizabeth's father, Henry VIII, a part he had played twenty years before in "The Private Life of Henry VIII".
 The film was directed by George Sidney and produced by Sidney Franklin, from a screenplay by and Arthur Wimperis based on the novel by Margaret Irwin (1944).
The I Don't Care Girl is a 1953 Technicolor film starring Mitzi Gaynor.
 It is a biography of an entertainer, Eva Tanguay.
Cruisin' Down the River is a 1953 Technicolor film directed by Richard Quine.
 It stars Dick Haymes and Audrey Totter.
 The story is about a New York nightclub singer who inherits an old riverboat on the Chattahoochee River between Georgia and Alabama.
 It features comedy, some drama and several musical performances.
Second Chance is a 1953 Technicolor film noir crime film directed by Rudolph Maté.
 The picture, shot on location in Mexico in 3-Dimension, features Robert Mitchum, Linda Darnell, and Jack Palance.
 It is notable as the first RKO film produced in 3D.

Question: What English poet was featured in a 1953 technicolor film?
Answer: John Gay