Tony Richardson
          Director, Actor  
	
	Films to Rent 
				 
	  
	        
Look Back in Anger (1958) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Mary Ure 
- Richard Burton plays the angry–young–man to the hilt in this grimly realistic slice of British life in the '50s. Based on John Osborne's…
 
Entertainer, The (1960)
 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Laurence Olivier 
- Laurence Olivier portrays a faded comedian who reflects on his failure as an entertainer and as a man. Another fine example of moody British…
 
Taste of Honey, A (1961) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Dora Bryan, Rita Tushingham, Robert Stephens… 
- Powerful and starkly realistic 'kitchen sink' drama in which a mollycoddled lonely girl (Rita Tushingham) leaves her loveless home to befriend a…
 
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Alec McCowen 
- Rebellious borstal–boy Tom Courtenay finds self–discovery while cross–country training. An emotionally powerful critique of class…
 
Tom Jones (1963)
 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Albert Finney, Susannah York, Hugh Griffith… 
- Albert Finney inhabits the randy trou of Tom Jones, a wild and reckless young man with an eye for the ladies. A lavishly produced Oscar winner,…
 
Loved One, The (1965) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer… 
- Satirical take on the funeral business in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery.
Doing for funerals what that DR…
 
Mademoiselle (Summer Fires) (1966) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini 
- Divisive and disturbing portrait of a repressed school teacher who unleashes a plague of 'accidents' upon on the inhabitants of her rural…
 
Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud, David Hemmings 
- Updated version of the Mid–Victorian battle made in the sardonic spirit of the swinging sixties. Trevor Howard, John Gielgud and David Hemmings…
 
Hamlet (1969) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Nicol Williamson, Gordon Jackson, Anthony Hopkins… 
- The predominant use of close–ups enhances Nicol Williamson's bold performance as an impulsive, roguish young Hamlet. 
 
Ned Kelly (1970) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Mick Jagger 
- Standard Biopic treatment of the infamous Aussie bushranger, livened up by casting of Mick Jagger.
 
American Film Theatre - A Delicate Balance (1973) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick… 
- The American Film Theatre's adaptation of the Edward Albee stageplay set amongst a troubled, but well–to–do American family.
When some…
 
Joseph Andrews (1977) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat.  Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Beryl Reid… 
- Bawdy picaresque revolves around the romantic misadventures of switched–at–birth servant. Chief amongst his concerns are the unwelcome…
 
Border, The (1981) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jack Nicholson, Harvey Keitel, Valerie Perrine… 
- Rather underrated drama set along the Texas–Mexico borderlands, where a soiled but still–idealistic cop (Nicholson) becomes embroiled…
 
Hotel New Hampshire (1984) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jodie Foster, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski 
- Jodie Foster falls in love with brother Rob Lowe. From the John Irving novel.
 
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) 
- Dir. Ken Russell, Tony Richardson, Frederic Raphael
Feat. James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Peter Weller… 
- Three stories of love from the pens of famous Americans, in the hands of three great directors. 
 
Blue Sky (1994) 
- Dir. Tony Richardson
Feat. Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones 
- Jessica Lange won a Best Actress Oscar for her performance as a flighty mother–of–two whose publicly turbulent marriage to army officer…
 
John Osborne and the Gift of Friendship (2006)
 
- Dir. Tony Palmer
Feat. John Osborne, Tony Richardson, Laurence Olivier… 
- Exemplary presentation traces the life and works of groundbreaking British playwright John Osborne, whose 1956 play 'Look Back in Anger' changed the…