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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780792850106
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0792850106
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoSpanishSubtitledFrenchSubtitled
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
MPN: MGMD1002060D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2001
Running Time: 104 minutes
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 1960
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Sir laurence olivier re-creates his famous stage role as archie rice created by john osborne . He is a third rate act headlining a failing end-of-the-pier show in a run down seaside resort. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: 04/16/2002 Starring: Laurence Olivier Joan Plowright Run time: 104 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Tony Richardson
Amazon.com Review:
Laurence Olivier broke with the theatrical poise of previous roles to play seedy music-hall entertainer Archie Rice in John Osborne's acclaimed play, The Entertainer, reprising the role in Tony Richardson's 1960 screen version and earning an Oscar nomination for his performance. Olivier gives his all as the gap-toothed vaudevillian living in the shadow of his music-hall-legend father Billy Rice (Roger Livesey), spitting out pithy wisecracks and mugging pathetically for bored audiences in seaside dives. Under the life-of-the-party patter, however, is a pathetic music-hall dinosaur trying too hard for his moment in the spotlight, nursing his wounded humiliation in trysts with naïve young girls and pouring out his passion in his finale tune, "Why Should I Care." "I have an affinity with Archie Rice," Olivier once opined. "It's what I really am. I'm not like Hamlet."
Shot on location on the boardwalk carnivals and holiday camps of the British seaside, the shabby show-biz world is beautifully photographed but never quite shakes off its origins on the stage. It's the vivid performances that drive the drama: Joan Plowright (who married Olivier in 1961) as his pragmatic daughter; Alan Bates and Albert Finney (making their film debuts) as his sons, a next-generation show-biz hustler and a soldier shipped off to the Suez, respectively; and Brenda de Banzie as Archie's long-suffering wife. "You've been a good audience. Let me know where you're playing tomorrow and I'll come see you." --Sean Axmaker
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Rating:  -
The demise of a seedy music hall entertainer is a metaphor for the decline of post-War Britain. A real showcase for Olivier - this rejuvenated his career. Beautifully photographed and strikingly directed with carefully framed scenes sometimes including both foreground and background action - also features excellent use of sound. Interestingly Olivier married his young co-star Plowright soon after this film was made.
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Laurence Olivier stars as a sleazy, third-rate music hall performer in 1960's "The Entertainer", one of the first and best films of the so called Free Cinema movement, and a movie that is somewhat neglected today (it should be better known). Based on a play by John Osborne, Olivier plays Archie Rice, a mediocre performer in grim seaside town theaters. His shows attract few people (early in the film, we see passersby sneering at the theater marquee that falsely advertises Archie as a television comedian). ... Read More
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Sir Laurence Olivier performs 'Brilliantly', the role of Archie, "The Entertainer"! The cast including his future wife, Joan Plowwright, and Alan Bates, are equally 'Superb' in their roles. Thank You for this 'Wonderful Film'!
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Ironically the foremost symbol of traditional English theatre, Olivier showed off his astounding range with an anti-heroic, tour-de-force turn in Tony Richardson's 1960 drama, adapted from John Osborne's play. Reprising his celebrated stage role, Sir Larry has a field-day playing Rice, a somewhat ghoulish has-been who personifies his own nation's decay, and the effort earned him an Oscar nomination. De Banzie and newcomer Plowright (who'd go on to marry Olivier) excel in supporting roles.
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this is one of the great treasures of my collection... 'the entertainer' features Laurence olivier in perhaps his greatest screen performance as the detestable, washed up vaudevilian Archie Rice who just can't give up the stage.. It is, moreover, the portrait of a family that struggles to survive in post world war 2 england.. With a son off in the military, a slightly senile yet amiable old grandfather, his son the not so sly womanizer archie rice, archie's much neglected wife, and the daughter played by ... Read More
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