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Look Back in Anger is a 1959 British kitchen sink drama film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson.
Look Back in Anger: Directed by Tony Richardson. With Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans. A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
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A London jazz club is the setting, Jimmy (Richard Burton) wailing on his trumpet, in the opening of Tony Richardson's , 1959, co-starring Mary Ure and Claire Bloom, from John Osborne's play. An embittered young man spews venom on all around him, particularly his upper-class wife.
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Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne. It focuses on the life and marital struggles of an intelligent and educated but disaffected young man of working-class origin, Jimmy Porter, and his equally competent yet impassive upper-middle-class wife Alison.
- John Osborne
- 1956
In Northern England, frustrated college dropout Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) plays music at a jazz club at night and by day works at a candy stall with partner Cliff Lewis (Gary Raymond), who ...
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- Richard Burton
- Tony Richardson
- Drama
A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. Jimmy Porter is a loud, obnoxious man, rude and verbally abusive to his wife, Alison. Alison comes from an upper class family that Jimmy abhors and he berates Alison for being too reserved and unfeeling.
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Overview. A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values. Tony Richardson. Director. Nigel Kneale. Screenplay.
