Sebastian Shaw Movies

The life and work of Anglo-Irish painter, Jack B Yeats (1871-1957)

An aspiring composer, in the British Air Force for WWII, is downed in Italy and rescued by an Italian girl. He returns home to his wife, inspired to...

Ibsen's play is the story of Halvard Solness, Master Builder of a town in Norway. Solness is a successful architect but he's afraid of the being...

At a firm of contractors, a partner is accused of murdering his brother following a takeover bid.

A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their...

John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most...

The Foreman of an Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.

The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of...

An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company...

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review...

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to...

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.

Jack Brewster is a pennyless English lad who learns that he has inherited 6 million pounds sterling from a recently deceased relative. But soon...

1939 BBC studio production of Peggy Barwell’s play Prison without Bars, set in a girls’ reformatory, which was adapted from a German play...

Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying...

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now you’re talking’ follows a plant...

A British adventure film directed by George King

The armaments production programme is being sabotaged by a gang of Germans. A few arrests are made but the destruction of a vital plant goes on. Test...

The heir to a London department store must learn the business by working his way through various menial jobs incognito first. However, a crooked...