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Richard Burton was 33 when he played angry young Jimmy Porter in the film of John Osborne’s play – “a monumental miscalculation”, felt producer Harry Saltzman. Sixty years on, Burton’s grandstanding ensures Tony Richardson’s film debut remains stagey, shouty, yet a potent encapsulation of kitchensink realism, plus a monument to the lofty ambitions of Richardson’s Woodfall Films.