Of all the angry young men in the '60s British cinema who ever railed against the hypocrisy, regimentation and disappointment of working-class life (Laurence Harvey in Room at the Top, Albert Finney in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning), perhaps none raged quite so eloquently and articulately as Richard Burton, portraying John Osborne's antihero Jimmy Porter. Crowded into a one-room midlands flat with his taciturn wife Alison (Mary Ure) and two others, Jimmy torments all with his tirades against the Crown, the Clergy and the Classes (upper and middle). When Alison packs her bags and, soon after, Jimmy's closest friend--an aged Cockney widow played by Dame Edith Evans--dies, Jimmy's fury turns to self-pity and lands him in the arms of his flat-mate (Claire Bloom). John Osborne's electrifying play startled the drama world, and the film production by Osborne and Tony Richardson's fledgling company, Woodfall Productions, sent a similar shock of vitality through the cinema. Look Back in Anger ushered in the New Cinema movement of the 1960s, whose dramas were played out against the semidocumentary grit of England's industrial backyard, and whose authors and antiheroes were equally on the attack against the stifling deceits of cinema and of society.