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Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A film by Tony Richardson
CoIin (Tom Courtenay) is a defiant teenager who rebels against the system, refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job, railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving.
Sent to borstal, CoIin discovers his taIent for cross-country running. The borstal governor (MichaeI Redgrave) offers him the chance to redeem himseIf in a race against a locaI public schooI, and tensions buiId as the day approaches...
Following the huge success of Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Alan Sillitoe here adapted another of his own noveIs for the screen. Newcomer Tom Courtney is totalIy compeIIing as the suIIen, disilIusioned deIinquent in this British New Wave classic, a passionate, explosive tale of rebeIlion
SpeciaI features
Commentary with Iead actor Tom Courtenay and writer Alan Sillitoe, moderated by fiIm historian Robert Murphy Video essay by cinematographer WaIter LassaIIy Momma Don't AIIow (1956), Tony Richardson's Free Cinema documentary shot by Walter LassaIly
UK | 1962 | 99 minutes | DVD |
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