Honour, Profit and Pleasure

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Honour, Profit and Pleasure
Genre Period drama
Written byAnna Ambrose
Peter Luke
Directed by Anna Ambrose
Starring Simon Callow
Composer Nicholas Kraemer
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
ProducersAnn Skinner
Michael Whyte
Cinematography Peter MacDonald
Editor George Akers
Running time102 minutes
Production companySpectre Films
Release
Original network Channel 4
Original releaseJune 1985 (1985-06)

Honour, Profit and Pleasure is a 1985 British television film directed by Anna Ambrose and starring Simon Callow as George Frideric Handel, with an ensemble cast portraying a variety of other roles. It was broadcast to celebrate three hundredth anniversary of the year of the composer's birth in 1685. The film focuses on Handel's career in early Georgian London. [1]

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  1. Tibbetts p.337

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