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Woodfall Film Productions was a British film production company established in the late 1950s. It was established by Tony Richardson, John Osborne and Harry Saltzman to make a screen adaptation of Osborne's hit play Look Back in Anger. The film version, directed by Richardson and produced by Saltzman, was released in 1959.
- Look Back in Anger
- The Entertainer (Dir. Tony Richardson, 1960)
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- A Taste of Honey (Dir. Tony Richardson, 1961)
- The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner
- Tom Jones
- Girl with Green Eyes
- The Knack… and How to Get It
Jimmy (Richard Burton), Alison (Mary Ure) and Cliff (Gary Raymond) are sharing lodgings in London. Jimmy and Alison are married but their relationship is not a happy one. Jimmy carries a huge amount of anger regarding the unfairness of the world in general and, at a more personal level, the restrictions that his class placement in British society h...
Archie Rice (Laurence Olivier) is a fading Music Hall star and an undischarged bankrupt who is trying barely able to keep his showbiz career alive via a low key show that is playing in a theatre in the northern seaside town of Morecambe. His showgirls haven’t been paid for weeks and he has other pressing problems to contend with: his wife Phoebe (B...
Review discs of Saturday Night and Sunday Morningwere not made available. This is perhaps Woodfall’s best-known and most critically acclaimed film and coverage of it will undoubtedly be readily found elsewhere for those who need an introduction.
Jo (Rita Tushingham) is an awkward schoolgirl who is being brought up by a feckless single parent, Helen (Dora Bryan). Helen is a 40-year-old party girl who needs to have a man in her life and she’s currently being pursued by the amorous Peter (Robert Stephens), who is eight years her junior. Peter is only after one thing and he reckons that the sn...
Review discs of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner were not made available. This film probably runs a close second to Saturday Night and Sunday Morning in terms of popularity and critical reaction and coverage of it will undoubtedly be readily found elsewhere for those who need an introduction.
In 18th century England the Allworthy estate is rocked when Squire Allworthy (George Devine) returns to the home that he shares with his spinster sister Bridget (Rachel Kempson) and finds a new-born baby in his bed. It’s duly explained that the baby belongs to a servant girl, Jenny Jones (Joyce Redman), and a local barber, Partridge (Jack MacGowran...
Kate (Rita Tushingham) and Baba (Lynn Redgrave) are two former convent girls from the Irish countryside who are now sharing lodgings in Dublin and enjoying the freedom and excitement that the big city has to offer. They share a close friendship but that dynamic changes slightly when Kate becomes smitten with Eugene Gaillard (Peter Finch), a rich mi...
A mild-mannered school teacher, Colin (Michael Crawford), is plagued by nightmares in which his lodger, Tolen (Ray Brooks), displays his superior ability to effortlessly attract members of the opposite sex. Colin decides that the house needs a steadying influence, which results in an eccentric “secret painter”, Tom (Donal Donnelly), simply moving h...
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Apr 3, 2018 · 3 April 2018. By Vincent Dowd,Arts reporter, BBC News. Woodfall Films. A Taste of Honey, the first film to star Tushingham, was released in 1961. Rita Tushingham was only 18 when she won the...
Apr 4, 2024 · Tony Richardson (born June 5, 1928, Shipley, Yorkshire, England—died November 14, 1991, Los Angeles, California, U.S.) was an English theatrical and motion-picture director whose experimental productions stimulated a renewal of creative vitality on the British stage during the 1950s.
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May 24, 2015 · Woodfall Film Productions and the Revolution in ’60s British Cinema (2007) The Charge of the Light Brigade, 1968. Filmed in 1968 at the height of the counterculture movement, as the escalation of the Cold War and a seemingly interminable Vietnam War pervaded the collective consciousness of the entire international community, Tony Richardson ...
Woodfall Films Productions. British company. Learn about this topic in these articles: motion-picture history. In history of film: Great Britain.
