your reply 1 and then discovered you'd just deleted it. 
Not the first time this has happened. And not just with you. Sometimes it seems as if I need a virtual butterfly net, or maybe a staple gun, to hold DU messages in place till I can reply to them.
Anyway, since you did repost, and I bookmarked some stuff...
The first thing I wanted to tell you is that you should never assume an artist or writer knows exactly where an inspiration comes from, because they honestly might not know, or might just be guessing. Your subconscious can offer things up piecemeal, and they can seem like unconnected jigsaw puzzle pieces, but arriving with a sense that they're definitely part of something larger.
The second thing I wanted to say was that it's very likely that Noel was aware of that 1959 film and the 1956 play it was based on, and might've been required to read the play in school - but he wasn't much of a student. He was aware, though, that Bowie - Noel's a Bowie fan - had used that title for a 1979 song that otherwise had nothing to do with the play and film. He might've heard the Bowie song first and then been told about the play and film, and subconsciously linked those words to his nightmare of a father who abused the family.
But even though he probably associated those words with that trauma, he didn't believe it was a good idea to look back.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Look_Back_in_Anger
Noel Gallagher said of the song, "It reminds me of a cross between "All the Young Dudes" and something the Beatles might have done." Of the character "Sally" referred to in the song, he commented, "I don't actually know anybody called Sally. It's just a word that fit, y'know, might as well throw a girl's name in there."[6] He explained the song by saying, "It's about not being upset about the things you might have said or done yesterday, which is quite appropriate at the moment. It's about looking forward rather than looking back. I hate people who look back on the past or talk about what might have been." Oasis later said they named the song after David Bowie's 1979 song "Look Back in Anger" (from Lodger (1979)).[4][7]
I wonder if anyone recorded the song the first time it was played, so we can know exactly what the lyrics were then.
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