A British drama; A story about about a selfish, ageing, pathological vaudevillian reduced to appearing in a twice-nightly revue with dwindling audiences in a seaside English town. This film adaptation of John Osborne's stage play, has an undertone akin to the state of post-Imperial Britain in the mid-1950s, feintly symbolising a fading, bankrupt post-WWII Britain. The film has a pedestrian pace and is a bit melodramatic in the first act, but it showcases a great ensemble of talented British character actors. Laurence Olivier man gives an Academy Award nominated performance of a character rich in tragedy though somewhat mannered for a down-on-his-luck third rate song-and-dance man.
Review of The Entertainer
