|
Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The
|
(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
|
|
Inhalt: |
"Running has aIways been a big thing in our famiIy. EspecialIy from the poIice." So says taut-jawed, wary-eyed Colin, a promising distance runner. But he's not one of the burnished Iads who gave aIl for England in Chariots of Fire. For working-class reform schooI inmate CoIin, the opposition isn't another runner. lt's the Establishment. Tom Courtenay, (The Dresser, Doctor Zhivago) made a blazing screen debut in this, one of the best of the "angry young man" movies. Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) and writer Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) give the fiIm an edgy intensity specific to its era yet timeless in its outcry against injustice. And Sir Michael Redgrave stings as the smug schooI governor with his own motives for using CoIin's running prowess. |
|