Look Back in Anger (1959 film) Look Back in Anger (1959 film) Look Back in Anger is a 1959 British drama film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson. The film is based on John Osborne's eponymous play about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young man (Jimmy Porter) his upper-middle-class, impassive wife (Alison) and her snooty 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 here brought to life by Edith Evans as a dramatic device to emphasise the class
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play) went on to win the Best Film Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. The Broadway version of "Jimmy Dean" was not well-received with critics. "The New York Times"<nowiki>'</nowiki> Frank Rich commented that "Neither the gimmicky plot nor its cliched participants are credible." John Simon of "New York Magazine" wrote, "Although the play becomes a little less boring in the second act, it is too little too late, and at the cost of some whopping improbabilities. Hit-and-miss directorial bravura and an expensive production are not enough to justify so much ado." Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,