Carl Davis Movies

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

A perennial understudy takes matters into her own hands to achieve fame at any price.

An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.

Biopic of Malcolm Campbell, detailing his tumultuous life and extreme drive as he attempts to break the world speed records on land and water.

The Pickwick Papers is a twelve-part BBC adaption of The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, first broadcast in 1985. It starred Nigel Stock, Alan...

Johnny has joined the army because he likes canoeing, but ends up in a war-torn city and is compromised into helping the enemy. However, desertion...

An Interview with Carl Davis

In the 1930s, Alison starts a new boarding school and becomes embroiled in a sinister plot to dethrone the royal family of Bosnovia.

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

When his father becomes a bomb victim, Jimmy leaves Belfast for his uncle’s farm in remote west Ireland. But even here there are links to the...

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

Brecht's company of actors tells the story of Bertolt Brecht: his theatre, plays, poetry and his life.

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster...

1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks...

A live recording from the Vaudeville Theatre in London where Simon Callow recreates the reading performances of Charles Dickens.