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This Sporting Life

This Sporting Life

1963, Movie, 2h 14min

One of the finest British films ever made, this benchmark of kitchen-sink realism follows the self-defeating professional and romantic pursuits of a miner turned rugby player eking out an existence in drab Yorkshire. With an astonishing, raging performance by a young Richard Harris, an equally blistering turn by fellow Oscar nominee Rachel Roberts as the widow with whom he lodges, and electrifying direction by Lindsay Anderson, in his feature-film debut following years of documentary work, THIS SPORTING LIFE remains a dramatic powerhouse.

Country: United Kingdom

Director:

Lindsay Anderson

Cast:

Richard Harris,

William Hartnell,

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Critic David Parkinson

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8

Yorkshire coal miner Frank Machin finds fame as an uncompromisingly combative rugby league player at a club controlled by rivals Weaver and Slomer.

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as This Sporting Life include Au Hasard Balthazar, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes, Home Before Dark, Le Beau Serge, Run Swinger Run!.

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This Sporting Life was released in theaters on July 16, 1963.