The Entertainer (film)

The Entertainer is a 1960 drama film directed by Tony Richardson, based on the stage play of the same name by John Osborne. It starred Laurence Olivier as a failing thirdrate musichall stage performer who tries to keep his career going even as the musichall tradition fades into history and his personal life falls apart.

Jean Rice, a young London art teacher, travels to a seaside resort not specified but partly filmed in Morecambe to visit her family. She is emotionally confused, having had a row with her fianc, who wants her to emigrate with him to Africa. She is also deeply concerned about the Suez Crisis, having seen her soldier brother off to the war. She has attended a peace rally in Trafalgar Square, directed against prime minister Anthony Eden.She finds that the resort has declined from its preWorld War II heyday and is now drawing waning crowds, despite being in midseason. The musichall act of her father Archie Rice Olivier plays out to a small number of increasingly uninterested spectators. Her family is deeply dysfunctional. Her beloved grandfather, once one of the leading stars of the music hall, lives in quiet retirement with his daughterinlaw and grandson. ........

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