Jimmy Porter left the traditional class structure reeling as he turned relentlessly on his wife, Alison, and her upper-crust background.

Jimmy Porter, who works the Long Range basketball game, says: "I don't think that God really wants us to settle down."

Richard Burton as John Osborne's angry young man Jimmy Porter.

Jones moved on to Chicago, in 1874 teaming up with Jimmy Porter and "Colonel" Charlie Starr.

The black-and-white film opens with a close-up on Jimmy Porter performing on trumpet in a crowded, smoky jazz club (titles over).

Mary McCarthy, the play's early American champion, compared Jimmy Porter to Hamlet, who had also "declared war upon a rotten society."

Despite differences in the works, both Dangerfield and Osborne's Jimmy Porter are rebels thumbing their noses at accepted behavior.

"If you could combine Jimmy Porter and Mozart," he said, smiling, "that would be a formidable force in the world."

The name Jimmy Porter is a clear reference to the main character in the play Look Back in Anger.

In the 1959 film version Ure reprised her role with Richard Burton as Jimmy Porter.