The Entertainer (1960)

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7.1	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Tony Richardson

Starring (View all)

Laurence Olivier
Archie Rice

Brenda De Banzie
Phoebe Rice

Roger Livesey
Billy Rice

Joan Plowright
Jean Rice

Alan Bates
Frank Rice

Daniel Massey
Graham

Albert Finney
Mick Rice

Shirley Anne Field
Tina Lapford

Written by

John Osborne

Nigel Kneale
(screenplay)

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3 years, 11 months ago at May 28 15:31

fernando

(YT) After "Look back in anger" Richardson was more classic, conventional, ambitious. He took Osborne and a lot of colourful characters in extreme, ha managed sequences with masses en the seaside...

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Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.

Release date: 2 December 1960
UPC: 027616862709

Tags: British (2), Drama (2), 1960 (2), Essential Cinema (1), Substance Abuse (1), Bankrupt (1), Laurence Olivier (1), Character Study (1), Lowlife (1), Dramas (1), Dysfunctional (1), Relationship (1), New Wave (1), Recommended (1), Bw (1), B&w (1), Musical (1), Alcohol (1), Death (1)

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"Laurence Olivier stars as Archie Rice, an entertainer who has seen better days. Now playing to near empty halls in an unnamed Northern seaside town (I think it's either Blackpool or Morecambe), he carries on regardless thinking that the good times will come back but they never do. Archie is a relic of a bygone age but he's still a despicable man who's out to bag a young girl or use somebody for his own gains. This movie has been touted as being one of Olivier's best movies and whilst it is ver"