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| Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC) | ![Look Back in Anger [1958] (REGION 1) (NTSC)](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513rZeueCYL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure, Edith Evans, Gary Raymond
Studio: MGM
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 34277
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Running Time: 98 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: MGMD1002741D
ISBN: 0792851633
UPC: 027616869395
EAN: 9780792851639
ASIN: B00005PJ6W
Theatrical Release Date: 1958
Release Date: December 11, 2001
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 BURTON BLOWS A TRUMPET AS A BRITISH BEAR October 7, 2008
The play uses the metaphor of describing english working classes as bears for men and squirrels for women ,it even shows them as fluffy toys and mary ure and burton enact the 2 animals very animatedly ,which is very overdone but interesting as this whole movie is an exercise in a mock protest rather than reality.
It is a very condescending view of the english marriage and character ,at times contemptible of it's characters which rather translates to a selfish love of the same low-lifes as the script evolves .
You will hear the Jazz score and the trumpet blaring angrily but nothing will prepare you for the very entertaining venomous outbursts by burton -who is a candy stall keeper in a market.
He talks like Bernard Shaw as he is a graduate who is unable to get suitable employment ,dubbing his middle-class mother-in-laws as an overfed,overpriveleged cow and the father as an edwardian plant who complains why the sun does not shine anymore .
The script is over-literary and the performances by Bloom and Burton are too vocal but absorbing .
The suffering-wife Mary Ure and Gary Raymond as their mutual mate serving as a foil for the wrath of the violent husband are superb with their expressions alone and balance this movie to get a truly affective feel of the misery of two individuals who are burning with love but miserable in their social milieu.
That environment makes the individual who they become seems to be the message and we see a very nasty englishman bully verbally terrorise his silent wife and then characteristically embark on an affair with her best mate who he professes to hate.
The story reflects on the damp climate,the dingy slums and the racial bigotry against indian immigrants sometimes subtly and at times flagrantly but it is worth a look as it always remains absorbing and the script is responsible for that triumph as it protects it from becoming pretentious or offensive but rather projects it as a study of human behaviour in difficult circumstances .
It is not complimentary to the English society or character in general and is a scathing criticism in spirit -sometimes smacking of a revolt but still enjoyable .
usman khawaja
 A true 1950s classic! August 7, 2008
One of the most dramatic of the critically acclaimed kitchen sink dramas where it always seems to be raining.
This is a very dark and brooding picture dealing with an unsuitable marriage between the classes. A true classic that stars Richard Burton and the great Dame Edith Evans.
Burton is at his most good-looking here, and plays a somewhat bitter, insecure, but intelligent loser married to the downtrodden and love-sick 'Alison' (played by the beautiful Mary Ure who committed suicide in 1975) - then along comes her best friend (Claire Boom) as his second helping of 'top drawer'!
This movie is now fifty years old. I have not seen the re-make, but it won't be as good as this!
This melancholic picture also stars a young Donald Pleasence with a rare starring role for Gary Raymond
The Original Angry Young Man May 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I watched Look Back in Anger last night for the first time in many years. It is a brilliant play but rather difficult to watch due to the uncomfortable scenes of verbal abuse involving Richard Burton's character and his down-trodden, upper-middle-class wife who seems to spend all her time ironing and looking beautiful but down-trodden. Apparently John Osborne wrote this play based on his own unhappy marriage to Pamela Lane and their life in a dingy flat in Derby during the fifties.
It takes a lot of effort to see beyond the contemptuous, bullying veneer of Burton's portrayal of Jimmy and it would be easy to dismiss him as nothing more than a villain. But glimpses beneath his odious exterior include his obvious devotion to his old landlady and his support of an Indian market-stall owner who is ostracised for being a foreigner. By the end of the film it becomes obvious that Jimmy is severely `damaged' psychologically but we, the viewers, are left to draw our own conclusions as to why he is selling sweets on a market stall and living in such squalid conditions when he is university educated.
To my mind Claire Bloom's character, Helena, is the real villain of the play. The scene where Jimmy launches a vitriolic tirade against Helena, calling her an `evil-minded little virgin' she slaps him and there is a suspended moment of emotion as Jimmy clutches his stinging cheek. It is probably the most obvious point in the film and made me cringe a little but somehow they manage to get away with it.
The film was made in 1959 and the play opened in 1956 so it is now well over fifty years old. In today's age of psychotherapy and anti-depressants would Jimmy be a better person (a happier person) or was he better-off being angry and frustrated i.e. himself? It certainly wouldn't have made such a marvelous play. In many respects this play has similarities to A Streetcar Named Desire where the character of Stanley Kowalski could almost be interchangeable with that of Burton's Jimmy. Both are powerful plays/films and make for disturbing, thought-provoking viewing but they are far from uplifting: Testament to an era when abortion was illegal, two double Scotches cost ten bob and Angry Young Men could sell Jelly Babies by day and play the trumpet in a jazz club at night.
Get the culture secretary on to them July 20, 2007
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
Have long since lost the video I had of this film. Does deserve a DVD release in this country, most definitely, it does. It is British through and through, it made the Royal Court Theatre famous for putting on daring contemporary work, it made its young author famous, it certainly didn't hinder the careers of its actors, and it coined two new terms used by the media, 'Angry Young Man' and 'Kitchen Sink Drama'. And the only place you can watch this version of landmark British theatre on DVD is...America. Sounding like a familiar story, isnt it!
This is one hell of a good film December 6, 2003
8 out of 12 found this review helpful
In this masterful movie from 1958, director Tony Richardson shows precisely why he became to be regarded as such a brilliant film director.The film leads, Richard Burton and Claire Bloom, both supply electric performances - made especially memorable by the barely-concealed power of Burton's voice, manner and overall screen "presence" Just a few seconds of Richard Burton on screen makes the hairs stand up on the back of your neck. Is this the best film acting he ever did? I can't think of any other film in which he provided a better, more powerful performance.
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