Davy (1958)

Directed by

Michael Relph

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 23m

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young music hall entertainer tries to break away from his family's act to pursue a solo career. The story follows his efforts to succeed on his own terms in the British entertainment world of the 1950s.

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What happens

Davy is a 1958 British comedy-drama film directed by Michael Relph and starring Harry Secombe, Alexander Knox and Ron Randell. It was written by WIlliam Rose. It was the last comedy to be made by Ealing Studios and was the first British film in Technirama. Davy was intended to launch the solo career of Harry Secombe, who was already a popular British radio personality on The Goon Show, but it was only moderately successful. Secombe said it "was to be my big chance to score a success in films, something I had longed to do ever since I started in the business. My previous attempts at becoming a film star were pretty poor to put it mildly." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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