- Country: Austria, Canada, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, West Germany
- Genres: Biography, Drama, Music
- Release: 1985-04-06
- Director: Tony Palmer
- Writers: John Osborne (II) (1929–1994)
- Language: English
- Stars: Trevor Howard (I) (1913–1988) , Dave Griffiths , Christopher Bramwell , Ranald Neilson , Tracey Spence , Anne Downie , Simon Donald , Peter Stanger , Beth Robens , Mitzi Mueller
- Runtime: 119 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Georg Friedric Händel (Spain) , God Rot Tunbridge Wells! , God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (United Kingdom)
- Plot: Shortly before death, George Fredrick Handel (1685-1759), old, blind, portly, sometimes raging and usually reflective, narrates a look back over his life. As he tells his story, his music plays as background or is performed on screen. As a youth, he is Buck, a prodigy, attractive to women and to patrons. He travels from Halle to Italy then to London, where he finds himself completely at home. He composes constantly. He pleases princes and dukes; he displeases prelates and critics. He's in court to defend his copyright. He makes and loses money; he engenders a cat fight between two divas. At the end of his life, he observes that he helped the English with their religion.
- IMDB:tt0412781
God Rot Tunbridge Wells! Cast · · · ALL
Tony Palmer
Director
Trevor Howard
(I)
(1913–1988)
Georg Friedrich Handel
Dave Griffiths
Christopher Bramwell