In the 1930s he established himself as a wide-ranging Shakespearean actor. When the new wave of British drama began in the late 1950s, Olivier was immediately part of it. As an actor of such wide range, and a successful producer and director, Olivier was a natural choice to bring the National Theatre into existence in 1963.
Frank Montgomery is in T.S. Eliot's 'middle way', Principal of an art college, coping with an aging father and a mother in law on the dark descent into Alzheimer's.
Hollywood's obsession with the tale of American greed, justice, religion and sexual hypocrisy stretches across the history of cinema. This title studies this extraordinary sequence of adaptations. It reveals a history of Hollywood of American culture and the difficulty of telling an American tragedy in the land of the American dream.
