The Entertainer (1960)
Country: GB
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie, Alan Bates, Roger Livesey, Shirley Anne FieldA music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Synopsis:
A music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Review:
Osborne's predictably vitriolic portrait of a soon-to-be outmoded form of entertainment here gets princely treatment from Woodfall Films and a powerhouse Olivier performance, perhaps the last such he would give.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie, Alan Bates, Roger Livesey, Shirley Anne FieldA music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Synopsis:
A music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Review:
Osborne's predictably vitriolic portrait of a soon-to-be outmoded form of entertainment here gets princely treatment from Woodfall Films and a powerhouse Olivier performance, perhaps the last such he would give.
Country: GB
Technical: bw 96m
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Brenda de Banzie, Alan Bates, Roger Livesey, Shirley Anne FieldA music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Synopsis:
A music-hall song and dance man squanders the love and support of his family on hard drinking, infidelity and doomed projects to stay in show business.
Review:
Osborne's predictably vitriolic portrait of a soon-to-be outmoded form of entertainment here gets princely treatment from Woodfall Films and a powerhouse Olivier performance, perhaps the last such he would give.