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Look Back in Anger (1958) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Dec 11, 2001
Running Time
1 hour, 55 minutes
Country UK
Studio Associated British Picture Corporation, Pathé Films, Warner Brothers, Woodfall
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Other Titles
• Blick zurück im Zorn (1960)
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Genre: Drama, School / Campus, Psychodrama, Urban, Marriage, Infidelity, Society, Love
Tagline: An electrifying adult experience... from the sensational play by John Osborne that shocked the world!
Plot: Tony Richardson's first film is this adaptation of John Osborne's landmark play, as Britain's two leading Angry Young Men fired the opening salvo in the war on the false values of their post-World War II society. To a theater audience accustomed to the whodunits of J.B. Priestley, the period verse drama of Christopher Fry, and the drawing room comedy of Noël Coward, the scathing epigrams of Osborne's Jimmy Porter burned like napalm. Richard Burton stars as the disenchanted Jimmy, a university graduate from a working-class background, currently running a candy stall on the street by day and playing jazz at night. He shares a flat with wife Alison (Mary Ure) and, while there, spends much of his time venting his spleen against the British class system, conventional society, the couple's poverty, his wife's upper-crust family, and, most of all, his wife and himself, among a wide array of targets. Kenneth Tynan described the couple as "two attractive young animals engaged in competitive martyrdom," a succinct summary. After a particularly intense session, Alison's actress friend Helena (Claire Bloom) suggests that she leave Jimmy, and she does. Burton gives arguably his best performance on film, backed by a powerhouse supporting cast that includes Edith Evans and Donald Pleasence.
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Related Movies:
- version of Look Back in Anger (1980)
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Nigel Kneale
Quatermass and the Pit, First Men in the Moon, The Quatermass Xperiment |
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| Cast |
Richard Burton
The Longest Day, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Where Eagles Dare |
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Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mighty Aphrodite, Daylight | Mary Ure
Where Eagles Dare, Custer of the West, Sons and Lovers | Edith Evans
The Importance of Being Earnest, The Nun's Story, Tom Jones | Gary Raymond
Jason and the Argonauts, El Cid, Suddenly, Last Summer | | |
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