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Wolfman escribió:Stumbled upon this a couple of days ago, saw that it was not released properly and thought: Laurence Olivier? Then I can't go wrong:

"Hmm -- a movie called *The Entertainer*, with a smiling Laurence Olivier on the DVD's cover. He looks like he wants to give us all a big hug. There are even chorus girls dancing behind him. This looks like fun!" -- Nope: it's one of the most depressing movies ever made. Well, there IS some fun to be had by watching Olivier totally INHABIT the character of Archie Rice: truly a case of the 20th Century's greatest actor playing one of the best roles in 20th Century drama. Let it be said at once that this is Olivier's best film performance, and never mind all those Shakespeares. (He thought so too, calling the role of Archie Rice his all-time favorite and the one he most closely related to.) The movie is based on the original stage play, written by the original Angry Young Man, the great playwright John Osborne. The superficial thing to say about *The Entertainer* is that Archie Rice symbolizes England itself after World War II. This story encapsulates like no other (including Osborne's earlier *Look Back in Anger*) that "British post-War malaise" you've heard so much about. Much like England in 1960, the man harbors illusions of grandeur based on a speciously "glorious" past. And like the country, Archie is in reality outdated, irrelevant, dingy, unpleasant, past his prime, desperate, pathetic -- in a phrase, he's very much like the sleazy seaside resort town wherein he plies his trade as a vaudevillian. And you can draw an easy parallel between Archie's attempts to keep his bankrupt show afloat with England's senseless, imperial involvement in Palestine at this time. (Or was it Suez? -- it's been a while since I've seen the movie. In any case, it was someplace where they no longer belonged.) But these exercises are for film theory class. The real stuff is in the creation of the wonderfully nasty character. Archie is a REAL character with depth, unique mannerisms and diction, and plausible motives. He has a history. He's believable. But as brilliantly as the character is written, it's Olivier who brings him to searing life. When Olivier delivers Archie's "goodnight" address at the end of the film, you know you're watching a high moment in cinema. Only a great actor with decades of experience could deliver these lines with such withering weight. Archie's divers failures are horrible, absurd, and total -- but Olivier is defiant. We find ourselves grudgingly admiring this rat-like defiance, because we love fighters. And great actors.

The.Entertainer.(1960).XviD.1.02.by.Wolfman.avi
Specs:
Filesize.....: 699 MB (or 716,686 KB or 733,886,464 bytes)
Runtime......: 01:39:29 (149,233 fr)
Video Codec..: XviD
Video Bitrate: 843 kb/s
Audio Codec..: 0x0055(MP3) ID'd as MPEG-1 Layer 3
Audio Bitrate: 132 kb/s (66/ch, stereo) VBR LAME3.90.°
Frame Size...: 560x336 (1.67:1) [=5:3]


Subs: The.Entertainer.(1960).XviD.1.02.by.Wolfman.Subs.rar

The Subpack contains English, Netherlands, Svenska and Suomi.

A word to the Spanish and Portuguese speaking guys: I'm sorry that neither Portuguese nor Spanish subs were on the DVD, but please let that not deter you from watching the movie.
Maybe with the Exception of Sir John Gielgud I have never seen an actor who spoke a more marvellous English than Laurence Olivier. You will almost certainly be able to understand everything even without looking at the English subs. Promise.

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053796/

Have fun! :cheers: