Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger
by Tony Richardson

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Actor: Claire Bloom, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure, Richard Burton
Director: Tony Richardson
Brand: BURTON,RICHARD
Cinematographer: Oswald Morris
Editor: Richard Best
Producer: Gordon Scott
Producer: Harry Saltzman
Writer: John Osborne
Writer: Nigel Kneale
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-12-11
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

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Movie Review: One of Burton's Best Performances
Summary: 5 Stars

Both Richard Burton and Mary Ure make this move a must see, in my opinion. They give life to the characters and there's a chemistry between them that you don't often find in movies.

It's a story about a troubled marriage, mainly because the husband (Burton) is an angry young man who's haunted by his past and unreasonably resents his wife for what he sees is a lack of empathy and emotion because she had never experienced loss such that he had experienced and also of betrayal because she stays in touch with her mother, who disapproves of him. Suffice to say, as is typical of marriages, he takes his past baggage and anger at the world out on the one closest to him -- his spouse. Without giving away the ending, they both come around to understand each other, though, and she comes around to actually empathize with him.

It's a very good story, but, again, it's the acting, in my view, that makes this movie a classic.

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Oscar?(r) nominee* Richard Burton delivers a passionate performance, and Mary Ure, ClaireBloom, Gary Raymond and Edith Evans give exciting stand-out portrayals (Los Angeles Times)in this powerful and engrossing motion picture (Cue) that bristles with brilliant dialogue (The Hollywood Reporter) and raw human emotion. Rage! His eyes blaze with it and his bodyseethes with it. Jimmy Porter is a man consumed by anger, and every moment he spends in the rank, suffocating squalor of the English factory town that entraps him, propels him closer and closer towards self-annihilation. But Jimmy's savage cruelty is not limited to himself. He also hurts the ones he lovesagain and again. And this time, he's about to commit an act so brutal, so destructive, that his wife Alison, her best friend Helena, and even Jimmy himself may not be able to survive! *Actor: The Robe (1953), Becket (1964), The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (1965), Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf (1966), Anne Of The Thousand Days (1969), Equus (1977); Supporting Actor: My Cousin Rachel (1952)

Richard Burton was riding high in grandiose roles in Hollywood and on Broadway when he returned to Britain to portray trumpet-playing social dropout Jimmy Porter in Tony Richardson's adaptation of John Osborne's groundbreaking 1956 play. Burton's Jimmy works in a public market "sweet stall" where he rubs shoulders with the working class with a condescending air, while he takes out his contempt of bourgeois complacency at home on his spiritually whipped wife (a numb-looking Mary Ure) and her best friend (Claire Bloom). Burton is too old for the part of the self-loathing college grad, but his performance simmers with frustration and misdirected rage that masks the sad, vulnerable underside to his misanthropic swipes. The film became the opening volley in Britain's "New Cinema," a new wave of young directors, working-class themes, and social-realist style. --Sean Axmaker

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