Look Back in Anger (1959 film) difference between Jimmy and Alison. The film and play are classic examples of the British cultural movement known as kitchen sink realism. The black-and-white film opens with a close-up on Jimmy Porter performing on trumpet in a crowded, smoky jazz club (titles over). Having finished to a round of applause, he goes over to his friend Cliff, sitting at a front row table but his friend waves him off in dumb-show, being more intent on winning the affections of a woman. (The real Chris Barber jazz band is visible in the background). Scenes of Jimmy walking home through the depressing
John F. Osborne John F. Osborne John F. Osborne (March 15, 1907 – May 3, 1981) was an American magazine editor and journalist. He was born in Corinth, Mississippi. Osborne wrote for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Associated Press before joining the National Recovery Administration, and then the Tennessee Valley Authority, as a U.S. government public relations officer during the Great Depression. He became an editor at Time–Life. In 1940, William Saroyan lists him among "contributing editors" at "Time" in the play, "Love's Old Sweet Song". Eventually, he became "Time"'s London editor and then Far East editor (based in Hong Kong) in