Mr Burton

12A

“Without Philip Burton there would never have been a Richard Burton,” Elizabeth Taylor once observed of her sometime husband and actor renowned for his powerful performances in Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood, on the Shakespearean stage and in many Hollywood screen roles.

Released during the centenary year of his birth, this is the story of wild school boy Rich Jenkins, son of a hard-drinking miner, and Philip Burton, an English teacher who recognised Jenkins' talent at an early age. It's an ultimately moving, largely untold story of how Richard Burton became the biggest star Wales has ever produced.