from British Lion Film
Directed by
Tony Richardson
Starring
Michael Redgrave (Reformatory Governor)
Tom Courtenay (Colin Smith)
Avis Bunnage (Mrs. Smith)
Alec McCowen (Brown)
James Bolam (Mike)
Joe Robinson (Roach)
Dervis Ward (Detective)
Topsy Jane (Audrey)
Julia Foster (Gladys)
John Brooking (Green)
John Bull (Ronalds)
James Cairncross (Mr. Jones)
Peter Duguid (Doctor)
Raymond Dyer (Gordon)
Frank Finlay (Booking Office Clerk)
James Fox
William Ash Hammond (Johnny Smith)
Peter Kriss (Scott)
Peter Madden (Mr. Smith)
Philip Martin (Stacey)
Arthur Mullard (Craig)
Christopher Parker (Bill Smith)
Robert Percival (Tory Politician)
Anthony Sagar (Fenton)
John Thaw (Bosworth)
Christopher Williams (Public School Boy)
Written by
Alan
Sillitoe (also book)
Original music by
John
Addison |
A bleak, but powerful 1960 British film that ranks
as one of the most important United Kingdom imports of the decade.
Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones)
tells the story of a rebellious social misfit and petty thief
played by Tom Courtenay (The Dresser) who is picked to run on
the track team at a reform school for boys. He finds he must
balance his spirit and desire to win with his anger and frustration
at the life he has led. At times a wrenching character study
with no easy answers, Courtenay's performance is a touching portrait
of a young man and the journey he takes as he tries to run not
only for an unclear future, but from a past he cannot forget.
A film indicative of the working class expressionism that came
out of England in the early 1960s, Richardson's films stands
alone as a downbeat, but insightful story of one man's struggle
to determine who he is. --Robert Lane
The
Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (VHS Tape)
Other
Great Films from 1962
Other
Classic Sports Dramas
The
Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
by Alan Sillitoe
The
Cinema of Tony Richardson : Essays and Interviews
by James Michael Welsh, John C. Tibbetts, Jocelyn Herbert
Best
of British: Cinema and Society from 1930 to the Present
by Anthony Aldgate, Jeffrey Richards
Sixties
British Cinema (The History of British Film)
by Robert Murphy
The
Long-Distance Runner: An Autobiography
by Tony Richardson
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