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...turned his head; now he has sighted back some 4½ centuries-to the angriest young man of 1517. Osborne's newest play, Luther, attempts to present the father of Protestantism as a kind of Jimmy Porter of the Reformation. Starring Actor Albert (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) Finney, the play opened this week in Nottingham, a British tryout town, will spend the summer in "off-Broadway" London and on tour, including the Edinburgh Festival and Paris' Théâtre des Nations (see below). Like most plays on the road, Luther may change before London...
Starts Wednesday: Laurence Olivier (the Albert Finney of his generation) in John Osborne's The Entertainer. As happens all too often, the translation from stage to screen has not been an altogether felicitous one. But still, in all, one of last year's ten best; a courageous, honest, and well-performed document it is. Co-featured is an unknown quantity--a Novel "witty film package" (the words are the UT's). Tonight at 8:30. With Valerie Hobson and ever-amusing Stanley Holloway...
KENMORE: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, based on Alan Sillitoe's savage novel, is the best from Britain since The Angry Silence and Room at the Top. A fascinating exploration of the values of the welfare state's own working class. Albert Finney, the Olivier of his generation for some, gives a near-superb performance as the embattled young Lancashire protagonist. Evenings...
KENMORE: SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, based on Alan Sillitoe's savage novel, is easily the top film from Great Britain since Room at the Top. A fascinating exploration of the values of the welfare state's own working class. Albert Finney, already being hailed as the Olivier of his generation, gives a near-superb performance as the embattled young Lancashire protagonist. Evenings...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. Newcomer Albert Finney battles society in the best British film to come along since Room...