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Look Back in Anger

Pioneer Special Edition

( Catalog Number PSE9563 )
(1.66:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Look Back in Anger
1958 - 99 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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 No

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses when he's feeling good and verbal abuse when he's down on himself, which is often. Alison's best friend Helena Charles (Claire Bloom) advises Alison to escape her injurious marriage. Left with no one for a punching bag, Jimmy romances Helena. Having suffered a miscarriage, Alison returns, and Helena walks out of Jimmy's life. In keeping with its depiction of the dead-end existence of most of England's working poor in the late 1950s, nothing is truly resolved in Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne (at that time married to Mary Ure) uses Jimmy Porter as a spokesman for Osborne's own spleen-venting harangues against the British government and class system. Not only did Look Back in Anger spawn a new genre of British social-protest films, but it also inspired two remakes, both filmed for television. --- Hal Erickson

Three years after its incendiary run on the London stage, director Tony Richardson's film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1959) became one of the precursors to the British "kitchen sink" dramas of the 1960s. Enhancing the aim to show British life as it really was through the hopeless existence of enraged working class stiff Jimmy Porter and his put-upon, better-born wife Allison, Richardson unstintingly reveals the grunginess of their industrial city residential milieu with its drab row houses and unkempt children. Shot in stark black and white to match the dreariness of their lives, Richardson's close-ups intensify the already fraught emotions of Richard Burton's quintessential "angry young man" as he vents Porter's frustrations in Osborne's sharp, incisive dialogue. Mary Ure's Allison and Claire Bloom's neighbor-turned-mistress Helena are as emotionally caught as Jimmy, despite their different attempts at resistance. Richardson's first feature for his and Osborne's newly formed Woodfall Films, the critically praised Look Back in Anger became an international success, leading the way, along with Room at the Top (1959) to the British "New Wave" of gritty, socially engaged realism. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for Look Back in Anger

Richard Burton - Jimmy Porter
Claire Bloom - Helena Charles
Mary Ure - Alison Porter
Edith Evans - Mrs. Tanner
Gary Raymond - Cliff Lewis
Glen Byam Shaw - Col. Redfern
Donald Pleasence - Hurst
George Devine - Doctor
Walter Hudd - Actor
Ann Dickins - Girl A.S.M.
Bernice Swanson - Sally
Maureen Swanson
Toke Townley
Stanley van Beers
Nigel Davenport
Michael Balfour
Phyllis Neilson-Terry - Mrs. Redfern
Alfred Lynch
John Dearth
Jordan Lawrence

Crew for Look Back in Anger

Tony Richardson - Director
Harry Saltzman - Producer
Nigel Kneale - Screenwriter
John Osborne - Screenwriter / Play Author
Oswald Morris - Cinematographer
John Addison - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Richard Best - Editor
Peter Glazier - Art Director
Jocelyn Rickards - Costume Designer

Awards for Look Back in Anger

Best British Film Tony Richardson 1959 British Academy Awards
Best Actor - Drama (nom) Richard Burton 1959 Golden Globe
10 Best Films 1959 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor Richard Burton 1959 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Nigel Kneale 1959 New York Film Critics Circle

Feature Details

Title: Look Back in Anger
Feature Release Date: 1958
Genre: Drama
Rating: Not Rated
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 99 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.66:1
Playback Format: CLV

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Catalog Number: PSE9563
UPC: 013023451063
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Pioneer Special Edition
Publisher: Pioneer Special Editions

Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: PSE9563-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Richard Burton and Claire Bloom in...

Look Back in Anger

Pioneer Special Edition

( Catalog Number PSE9563 )
(1.66:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc

Look Back in Anger
1958 - 99 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama
Not Rated
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
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 No

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Archetypal British "angry young man" Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton) is a college-educated bloke who can't seem to get any better job than working in a candy store. Jimmy's relationship with his wife Alison (Mary Ure) alternates between hugs and kisses when he's feeling good and verbal abuse when he's down on himself, which is often. Alison's best friend Helena Charles (Claire Bloom) advises Alison to escape her injurious marriage. Left with no one for a punching bag, Jimmy romances Helena. Having suffered a miscarriage, Alison returns, and Helena walks out of Jimmy's life. In keeping with its depiction of the dead-end existence of most of England's working poor in the late 1950s, nothing is truly resolved in Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne (at that time married to Mary Ure) uses Jimmy Porter as a spokesman for Osborne's own spleen-venting harangues against the British government and class system. Not only did Look Back in Anger spawn a new genre of British social-protest films, but it also inspired two remakes, both filmed for television. --- Hal Erickson

Three years after its incendiary run on the London stage, director Tony Richardson's film version of John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger (1959) became one of the precursors to the British "kitchen sink" dramas of the 1960s. Enhancing the aim to show British life as it really was through the hopeless existence of enraged working class stiff Jimmy Porter and his put-upon, better-born wife Allison, Richardson unstintingly reveals the grunginess of their industrial city residential milieu with its drab row houses and unkempt children. Shot in stark black and white to match the dreariness of their lives, Richardson's close-ups intensify the already fraught emotions of Richard Burton's quintessential "angry young man" as he vents Porter's frustrations in Osborne's sharp, incisive dialogue. Mary Ure's Allison and Claire Bloom's neighbor-turned-mistress Helena are as emotionally caught as Jimmy, despite their different attempts at resistance. Richardson's first feature for his and Osborne's newly formed Woodfall Films, the critically praised Look Back in Anger became an international success, leading the way, along with Room at the Top (1959) to the British "New Wave" of gritty, socially engaged realism. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for Look Back in Anger

Richard Burton - Jimmy Porter
Claire Bloom - Helena Charles
Mary Ure - Alison Porter
Edith Evans - Mrs. Tanner
Gary Raymond - Cliff Lewis
Glen Byam Shaw - Col. Redfern
Donald Pleasence - Hurst
George Devine - Doctor
Walter Hudd - Actor
Ann Dickins - Girl A.S.M.
Bernice Swanson - Sally
Maureen Swanson
Toke Townley
Stanley van Beers
Nigel Davenport
Michael Balfour
Phyllis Neilson-Terry - Mrs. Redfern
Alfred Lynch
John Dearth
Jordan Lawrence

Crew for Look Back in Anger

Tony Richardson - Director
Harry Saltzman - Producer
Nigel Kneale - Screenwriter
John Osborne - Screenwriter / Play Author
Oswald Morris - Cinematographer
John Addison - Composer (Music Score) / Musical Direction/Supervision
Richard Best - Editor
Peter Glazier - Art Director
Jocelyn Rickards - Costume Designer

Awards for Look Back in Anger

Best British Film Tony Richardson 1959 British Academy Awards
Best Actor - Drama (nom) Richard Burton 1959 Golden Globe
10 Best Films 1959 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Actor Richard Burton 1959 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Screenwriting Nigel Kneale 1959 New York Film Critics Circle

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