Look Back in Anger (1959 film)

Look Back in Anger
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTony Richardson
Written byNigel Kneale
Based onLook Back in Anger
by John Osborne
Produced byHarry Saltzman
Gordon Scott
StarringRichard Burton
Claire Bloom
Mary Ure
Edith Evans
CinematographyOswald Morris
Edited byRichard Best
Music byChris Barber
Production
companies
Distributed byWarner Bros.
Release date
  • 15 September 1959 (1959-09-15)[1]
Running time
98 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£250,000[2]
Box office$1.1 million (est. US/ Canada rentals)[3]

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. The film is based on John Osborne's play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected working-class young man (Jimmy Porter), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison) and her haughty best friend (Helena Charles). Cliff, an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace. The character of Ma Tanner, only referred to in the play, is brought to life in the film by Edith Evans as a dramatic device to emphasise the class difference between Jimmy and Alison. The film and play are classic examples of the British cultural movement known as kitchen sink realism.

  1. ^ "Overview". TCM. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  2. ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p59
  3. ^ "1959: Probable Domestic Take", Variety, 6 January 1960 p 34