Starring: Toby Jones, Lesley Manville
Directed By: Marc Evans
Run Time: 2 hr. 4 mins.
Released By: Samuel Goldwyn Films LLC
Mr. Burton tells the true story of the relationship between Port Talbot schoolmaster Philip Burton and a wild young schoolboy called Richard Jenkins, the son of a wayward drunk. Richard dreamed of becoming an actor, but his ambitions were in danger of being derailed by a combination of family trouble, the pressure of war, and his own lack of discipline. Mr. Burton recognized the raw talent in his pupil, becoming his tutor, strict taskmaster and eventually his adoptive father. The film tells the story of how Richard Jenkins was turned into Richard Burton, the greatest star Wales has ever produced. A man who later said of his English schoolmaster, “I owe him everything.”
