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The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner (DVD, 2015)

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A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he relives his troubled past and plans how to show his contempt for authority.

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Producer
Tony Richardson
EAN
5035673007853
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70402505

Product Key Features

Film/TV Title
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Actor
Michael Redgrave, Julia Foster, Alec Mccowen, James Bolam, Tom Courtenay, John Thaw, Joe Robinson
Director
Tony Richardson
Format
DVD
Release Year
2015
Language
English
Features
Black & White, Audio commentary\Video essay by cinematographer Walter Lassally\Illustrated booklet containing essays and biographies\Karl Reisz/Tony Richardson documentary: MOMMA DON'T ALLOW (1956), Widescreen, Closed Caption
Aspect Ratio
Wide Screen
Run Time
99 Mins
Genre
Drama, General

Additional Product Features

Certificate
12A/12
Number of Discs
1
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
Art Director
Ted Marshall
Production Designer
Ralph Brinton
Reviews
Total Film - ...The nihilistic, punky buzz packs an immortal wallop....Classic...
Author
Alan Sillitoe
Featured
Peter Madden
Hearing Impaired
English
Additional Information
Alan Sillitoe's autobiographical novel about a rebellious 18-year-old living in dreary Lancashire proved to be the perfect material for Tony Richardson to adapt in the early 1960s. The film stars Tom Courtenay as the disaffected Colin Smith, who ends up in a Borstal, or reform school, after robbing a bakery. The Governor (Sir Michael Redgrave), the institution's chief authority, believes in physical training as a means of rehabilitating his charges. Despite his contempt for all authority, Colin one day inadvertently outruns the school's leading long-distance runner, and the Governor immediately assigns him to be trained for an imminent competition with a well-known public school. During his solitary training exercises, Colin flashes back to scenes of his chaotic youth: his father, a blue-collar worker dying of cancer, and his mother, a foul-mouthed harridan, blowing the insurance settlement on a new lover and a new TV. On the day of the big race, the two schools must share a locker room, and Gunthorpe (James Fox), the captain of the opposing team, reflexively wishes Colin good luck. The surprised boy looks at him as though these are the only words of encouragement he's ever received. Courtenay is exceptional in his film debut, exuding the bitterness typical of the director's early 'angry young man' films. Employing jump cuts and undercranked scenes borrowed from the Nouvelle Vague, the film emphasizes the oppressiveness of the boy's environment and the temporary freedom that running offers him.
Movie/TV Title
The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
Composer
John Addison
Sound source
Dolby Digital Mono\PCM Mono
Cinematographer
Walter Lassally
Editor
Antony Gibbs

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by bulldog1gloria06 Sep, 2017
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THIS IS A CLASSIC FILM THAT WAS FILMED IN LENTON, NOTTINGHAM, THIS WAS AN AREA THAT I GREW UP IN IN THE EARLY 70'S , AND CAN RECALL ALL THE STREETS , THE OLD RALEIGH WORKS WHERE MY MOTHER USED TO WORK ,AND ONE OF THE BOYS IN THE STREET FIGHTING WAS MY FATHER,HE GOT PAID 5 SHILLINGS FOR THIS , I HAVE OWNED THIS FILM BEFORE ON VHS, AND NOW WANTED IT ON DVD, THIS FILM BRINGS BACK A LOT OF FOND MEMORIES FOR ME

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Long distance runner

60's nostalgia buy

Great movie

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