What movie did YOU just FINISH watching?

mikef6 Another Bogart under my belt and I like what I've seen so far. Blasphemy, i know, that it's taken me so long to see them. Casablanca is my favorite of the 4 Bogart films I´ve seen. Now I know what all the hoopla was about.

Also fun to see John Huston direct his father, Walter Huston, to an Oscar for "Best Actor in a Supporting Role" (well deserved!). He sadly passed away a little over a year later after receiving the Oscar.

The Treasure of Sierra Madre (1948)

The Entertainer 1960, directed by Tony Richardson, adapted from the play by John Osborne, starring Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Albert Finney and others.
Drama about Archie Rice (Olivier), an old-time British music hall performer sinking closer and closer to his final defeat, but still schemes to stay in show business.
This is the dark side of show business, at a very run down summer resort, rock and roll and skiffle group has begun to take over, as have television, the movie takes place in 1956 at the time of the Suez crises. Olivier is great as the has-been entertainer who never really made it big, but still dreams of the big times and don't care who get's crushed in his way, including his family, even having a fling with a young girl that he promises to make a star, just so he can get hold of her fathers money to create a new big show, he doesn't even care to use his old father, whose name is still popular, but in failing health to create interest and bringing in money so he can afford his own new show. Archie Rice has more or less become a joke in show business, but it's hard to feel any pity for him. That it's made at real locations makes it very genuine, and I think there has been and still is Archie Rice's out there.
The movie is very well made, but depressing.

Laurence Olivier was nominated for a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar.

The movie marked movie debuts for Joan Plowright, Alan Bates and Albert Finney, all playing Archie Rice's children.

Roger Livesey plays Laurence Olivier's father, but is less than one year older than Olivier!

Most location shots were made in Morecombe and Blackpool in Lancashire, including the West End Pier in Blackpool that has since been demolished.

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This is a great movie, marking the debuts for so many great English actors.

Wow, what a great cast, including Daniel Massey from the "Massey acting dynasty." Daniel was almost a dead ringer for his father, Raymond: 

His sister, Anna, also had some resemblance to her father and brother.
I remember her from Hitchock's Frenzy (1972) and  the Michael Powell's Peeping Tom (1960). 


Then there was Brenda de Banzie who I remember from Hobson's Choice (1950), but took a supporting, but important, role in Hitchock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).

I thought The Entertainer was on the BFI Top 100, but, in checking again, it isn't. 

I had no idea that Roger Livesey and Olivier were so close together in age.
(He made for an ideal father for Archie Rice in this movie.)
But, even stranger than that is Joan Plowright, who played Olivier's daughter in this movie but--in real life--married him in 1961--22 years his junior--after he divorced Vivian Leigh. 

Both Alan Bates; and Albert Finney's roles' were very small in this movie, but both went on to become giant actors.

Speaking of "Acting Dynasties," Tony Richardson was part of one of his own....as well is being an important part of the "British Kitchen Sink" era.