Anne Dickins, Claire Bloom, Donald Pleasence
Adaptation of Osborne's play about an educated man, angry at his blue-collar existence, who essentially is a barrage of verbal assault on his wife, who tries to leave him.
DVD Release Date: December 11, 2001
Stats: 58 reviews
Nothing special at all really. It was beautifully filmed though--especially that final scene. Richard Burton was as always great (despite the heavy-handed dialogue plopped upon him), Claire Bloom was gorgeous but all you're really in for is Richard Burton acting like a Grade-A as...( read more)
A british drama, said to be of the ?Kitchen Sink Drama? sub-genre. The film is based on a play and it shows it, it?s largely dialogue driven and could easily take place on one set. The film is mostly a character study about a young man who?s, well? angry. There are a lot of sc...( read more)
Has to be one of my favourites. Burton's performance is just amazing.
Perhaps the most emblematic of the film's integral connection between the turmoil of a fading postwar - and more importantly, post-colonial - British society and its manifestation on the younger generation is illustrated in the market community's blatantly racist treatment of the...( read more)
A good realistic plot about a relationship between a working class man and a middle class girl. Thankfully it didn't mimic Romeo and Juliet at all, like many other movies of this type, and instead looked at how it was for couples in the 60's in Britain. Claire Bloom is easily one...( read more)
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