Films with: Potter, Dennis

Mayor of Casterbridge

On a drunken impulse, Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter at a country fair, an outrageous act for which he suffer an agonizing remorse. Years later, when he has become a respected and prosperous man, his wife and daughter seek him out in Casterbridge. He attempts to right the long-ago wrong and sets in motion a series of events that spell his destruction.

DVD 1831

Pennies from heaven

Dennis Potter's masterpiece mini-series follows the adventures, mishaps, and yearnings of a traveling song sheet peddler on a tight commission as he tries to make dreams fit the promises of the lyrics he carries.

DVD 6009

Pennies from heaven

In Depression era Chicago, a salesman is having trouble convincing unwilling music store owners to buy his sheet music.

DVD 6010

Singing detective

The hallucinations of a mystery writer stricken with a crippling skin disorder interweave memories of his past with a plot casting him in the role of a suave sleuth who croons with a big band.

DVD 2080