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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Why this pick
Like The Entertainer, it is a sharp British New Wave portrait of working-class frustration, played with bracing immediacy and a bitterly comic edge.
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MOVIE1960 1h 36m GBR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A Taste of Honey
Why this pick
Tony Richardson brings the same unsentimental, socially alert energy to a young woman's difficult home life, balancing hardship with warmth and defiant humor.
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This Sporting Life
Why this pick
Its raw northern setting, damaged ambitions, and intensely confrontational performances extend The Entertainer's bleak view of masculinity and a fading social order.
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Why this pick
This has Richardson's forceful, restless style and the same anger toward class-bound institutions, centered on a young man resisting the role assigned to him.
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The L-Shaped Room
Why this pick
A close, humane British drama about a young woman navigating uncertainty in a cramped, vividly observed social world; its emotional candor suits The Entertainer's domestic ache.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Jean Rice, a young London art teacher, travels to a seaside resort (not specified but partly filmed in Morecambe) to visit her family. She is emotionally confused, having had a row with her fiancé, who wants her to emigrate with him to Africa. She is also deeply concerned about the Suez Crisis, having seen her soldier brother off to the war. She has attended a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, directed against prime minister Anthony Eden.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Roger Livesey
Billy Rice
Daniel Massey
Graham
Shirley Anne Field
Tina Lapford
Thora Hird
Mrs. Ada Lapford
Geoffrey Toone
Harold Hubbard
Anthony Oliver
Interviewer
Laurence Olivier
Archie Rice
Joan Plowright
Jean Rice