Directed by:
Tony RichardsonCinematography:
Oswald MorrisComposer:
John AddisonCast:
Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird, James Culliford (more)VOD (2)
Plots(1)
Archie Rice, a small-talent vaudeville song-and-dance man, refuses to face his own limitations and attempts to promote one new show after another...all unsuccessful. He is constantly nagged about his failures, insulted by audiences and careless of all who love him. (official distributor synopsis)
Cast
Laurence Olivier
UK
Best movies:
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Sleuth (1972)
Hamlet (1948)
Brenda De Banzie
UK
Best movies:
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
The Pink Panther (1963)
Roger Livesey
UK
Best movies:
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
The Adventures of Colonel Blimp (1943)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
Joan Plowright
UK
Best movies:
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
Moby Dick (1956)
Dinosaur (2000)
Alan Bates
UK
Best movies:
The Rose (1979)
Alexis Zorbas (1964)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)
Daniel Massey
UK
Best movies:
In the Name of the Father (1993)
The Cat and the Canary (1978)
The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)
Albert Finney
UK
Best movies:
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
Big Fish (2003)
Corpse Bride (2005)
Shirley Anne Field
UK
Best movies:
Dalziel and Pascoe (1996) (series)
The Kid (2010)
The War Lover (1962)
Thora Hird
UK
Best movies:
A Kind of Loving (1962)
The Magic Box (1951)
Some Will, Some Won't (1970)
James Culliford
Best movies:
The Entertainer (1960)
The Trygon Factor (1966)
Five Million Years to Earth (1967)
Anthony Oliver
UK
Best movies:
H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
The Entertainer (1960)
Tony Selby
UK
Best movies:
Press for Time (1966)
Superman (1978)
Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Miriam Karlin
UK
Best movies:
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Room at the Top (1959)
Children of Men (2006)
Gwen Nelson
UK
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975)
A Kind of Loving (1962)
MacDonald Hobley
UK
Best movies:
A Christmas Carol (1951)
The Entertainer (1960)
Geoffrey Toone
Ireland
Best movies:
Producers' Showcase (1954) (series)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) (TV movie)
The King and I (1956)