Look Back in Anger (1980 film)

For other uses, see Look Back in Anger (disambiguation).

Look Back in Anger

Directed by	Lindsay Anderson David Hugh Jones
Produced by	Don Boyd
Written by	John Osborne (play)
Starring	Malcolm McDowell Lisa Banes Fran Brill Robert Burr Raymond Hardie
Distributed by	Warner Home Video
Release dates	1980
Running time	100 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Look Back in Anger is a 1980 British film starring Malcolm McDowell, Lisa Banes and Fran Brill, and directed by Lindsay Anderson and David Hugh Jones. The film is based on John Osborne's play Look Back in Anger.

Plot

Look Back in Anger is about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man Jimmy Porter (Malcolm McDowell), his upper-middle-class, impassive wife Alison Porter (Lisa Banes), and her snooty best friend Helena Charles (Fran Brill). Cliff (Raymond Hardie), an amiable Welsh lodger, attempts to keep the peace.

Cast

Jimmy Porter - Malcolm McDowell
Alison Porter - Lisa Banes
Helena Charles - Fran Brill
Cliff Lewis - Raymond Hardie
Colonel Redfern - Robert Burr

Background/Production

Lindsay Anderson, who had previously worked with Malcolm McDowell on if.... and O Lucky Man!, translated Ted Craig's Roundabout Theatre Company production (in which McDowell was starring) to the screen, and taped results in three days.^[1]

References

↑ Blaise, Judd. "Look Back in Anger Overview". Allmovie. Retrieved 5 January 2009.

External links

Look Back in Anger at the Internet Movie Database
Look Back in Anger at AllMovie

The works of John Osborne

Plays	The Devil Inside Him (1950) Personal Enemy (1954) Look Back in Anger (1956) The Entertainer (1957) Epitaph for George Dillon (1957) The World of Paul Slickey (1959) Luther (1961) Plays for England The Blood of the Bambergs (1962) Under Plain Cover (1962) Inadmissible Evidence (1964) A Patriot for Me (1965) A Bond Honoured (1966) The Hotel in Amsterdam (1968) Time Present (1968) West of Suez (1971) A Sense of Detachment (1972) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) Place Calling Itself Rome (1973) Watch It Come Down (1976) Try a Little Tenderness (1978) The End of Me Old Cigar (1975) The Father (1989) Déjàvu (1991)

Film & TV	Look Back in Anger (1958) The Entertainer (1960) A Subject Of Scandal And Concern (1960) Tom Jones (1963) Luther (1964) The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) Inadmissible Evidence (1968) The Right Prospectus (1970) The Gift of Friendship (1972) Luther (1973) Ms, Or Jill and Jack (1974) Almost a Vision (1976) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) Look Back in Anger (1980) Very like a Whale (1980) You're Not Watching Me, Mummy (1980) Better Class of Person (1985) Colonel Redl (1985) God Rot Tunbridge Wells! (1985) Look Back in Anger (1989)

Books	A Better Class of Person (1981) Almost a Gentleman (1991) Damn You England: Collected Prose (1994)

Films directed by Lindsay Anderson

O Dreamland (1953) Thursday's Children (1954) Every Day Except Christmas (1957) This Sporting Life (1963) The White Bus (1967) If.... (1968) O Lucky Man! (1973) In Celebration (1975) Look Back in Anger (1980) Britannia Hospital (1982) The Whales of August (1987) Glory! Glory! (1989)

Films directed by David Jones

Look Back in Anger (1980) Betrayal (1983) 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) The Devil's Disciple (1987) The Christmas Wife (1988) Jacknife (1989) The Trial (1993) And Then There Was One (1994) Is There Life Out There? (1994) Time to Say Goodbye? (1997) The Confession (1999) A Christmas Carol (1999)

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