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The Entertainer

The Entertainer (1960)

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Release Date: Jan 1, 1960 Wide

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Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit that he's a failure, and his grim insouciance destroys everyone around him. Archie finagles his dying father into financing one last revue; he cheats shamelessly on his alcoholic wife (Brenda De

Jun 19, 2001

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All Critics (13) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1) | DVD (5)

Laurence Olivier gives one of his most riveting, Oscar-nominated performances in this bleak drama about a selfish, aging, pathological vaudevillian.

June 7, 2011 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

One of Olivier's best roles; overall production A+.

August 14, 2007
Video-Reviewmaster.com

A stagebound tragi-comedy that remains limp despite Sir Laurence Olivier's powerful performance.

January 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Testemunhar as estréias de Plowright e Finney no Cinema e observar os paralelos entre as atitudes de Olivier e seu personagem com relação às mulheres são, infelizmente, os únicos atrativos deste melodrama pouco inspirado.

August 11, 2003
Cinema em Cena

Olivier is terrific in this engrossingly sad depiction of a fading music hall performer.

May 29, 2003
Nitrate Online

Olivier is marvelous. A winner.

November 3, 2002
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)

Audience Reviews for The Entertainer

Wow, tough audience @ the Flixster. Give the poor guy a break.
April 4, 2007
brooklynspo

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The Entertainer is slice of history, and is an ably presented filming of the John Osborne play. Though the story's political allegory is now old and faded itself - Archie Rice/Lawerence Olivier's pathetic floundering music hall and career, which stands in for a fading, bankrupt post-WWII Britain ,what remains is still worth seeing.

This is a kitchen sink family drama with terrific seedy English seaside and sleazy theater atmosphere. Tony Richardson's early career showed great promise, and this film is a beautiful example of his talents. It contains Sir Larry's most heartfelt and naturalistic peformance on film and it's too bad that he didn't have more of these type of interior, heartfelt performances on film, the grandiose Shakespearan dramas aside.

The cast includes a who's who of future British film stars,as Archie's three grown kids - Alan Bates, Albert FInney and Joan Plowright, all in their first film appearances. Robert Livsey and Brenda de Banzie as Archie's elegant music hall dad and his second wife, an alcoholic, are also wonderful.

For a Canadian, it's amusing that the panacea for the family's problems is to make a new life in Toronto, something that Archie resists till the end of the film after a whole load of tragedy has beaten him down.

Without the contemporary relevance of 1960, this is just a very good family drama with a top notch British cast, but no world shaking groundbreaker. The DVD transfer is crisp and looks fantastic.
December 10, 2011
Josh Morris

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