--- title: 'Look Back in Anger (1959)' type: 'film' director: 'Tony Richardson' released: '1959-01-01' runtime_minutes: 99 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'United Kingdom' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/look-back-in-anger-1959' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051879/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Look Back in Anger (1959) 1959 · 99 min · Drama · United Kingdom ## Synopsis 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 ; his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison); and her haughty best friend. 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. ## Credits - **Director:** [Tony Richardson](https://cinepixo.com/people/tony-richardson) - **Screenplay:** [John Osborne](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-osborne), [Nigel Kneale](https://cinepixo.com/people/nigel-kneale) - **Original Music Composer:** [Chris Barber](https://cinepixo.com/people/chris-barber) - **Producer:** [Harry Saltzman](https://cinepixo.com/people/harry-saltzman) - **Director of Photography:** [Oswald Morris](https://cinepixo.com/people/oswald-morris) - **Editor:** [Richard Best](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-best) ## Cast - [Mary Ure](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-ure) - [Gary Raymond](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-raymond) - [Edith Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/edith-evans) - [Claire Bloom](https://cinepixo.com/people/claire-bloom) - [Donald Pleasence](https://cinepixo.com/people/donald-pleasence) - [Richard Burton](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-burton) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/look-back-in-anger-1959 Film facts: Wikidata (Q1610858); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.