Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down

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<p>Alan Bates, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Tom Courtenay, Albert Finney, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole, Robert Shaw and Terence Stamp: They are the most formidable acting generation ever to tread the boards or stare into a camera, whose anti-establishment attitude changed the cultural landscape of Britain.</p><p>This was a new breed, many culled from the working class industrial towns of Britain, and nothing like them has been seen before or since. Their raw earthy brilliance brought realism to a whole range of groundbreaking theatre from John Osborne's<i>Look Back in Anger</i>to Joan Littlewood and Harold Pinter and the creation of the National Theatre. And they ripped apart the staid, middle-class British film industry with kitchen-sink classics like<i>Saturday Night and Sunday Morning</i>,<i>This Sporting Life</i>,<i>The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, A Kind of Loving</i>and<i>Billy Liar</i>before turning their sights on international stardom: Connery with James Bond, O'Toole as Lawrence of Arabia, Finney with Tom Jones and Caine in<i>Zulu</i>.</p><p><b>Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down</b>brings alive the trail-blazing period of theatre and film from 1956-1964 through the vibrant energy and exploits of this revolutionary generation of stars who bulldozed over austerity Britain and paved the way for the swinging 60s. What Peter Biskind's<i>Easy Riders Raging Bulls</i>did for American cinema writing so<i>Don't Let the Bastards</i>will do for the British cinema.</p>

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Robert Sellers is the author of the bestselling<i>Hellraisers: The Life and Inebriated Times of Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed</i>,<i>Hollywood Hellraisers</i>and<i>An A-Z of Hellraisers</i>. He has also written biographies on Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Sean Connery,<i>Always Look on the Bright Side of Life</i>, a history of the George Harrison/Monty Python film company HandMade, and the controversial<i>Battle for Bond</i>, which for a time was banned by the family of Ian Fleming<i>.</i>He was a regular contributor to<i>Empire, Total Film</i>,<i>Independent, SFX</i>and<i>Cinema Retro</i>and<i></i>has contributed to a number of television documentaries, including Channel 4's<i>The 100 Best Family Films</i>.

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