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Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, The
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
A film by Tony Richardson
Colin (Tom Courtenay) is a defiant teenager who rebeIs against the system, refusing to foIlow his dying father into a factory job, raiIing against the capitaIist bosses and preferring to make a Iiving from petty thieving.
Sent to borstaI, Colin discovers his talent 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, AIan Sillitoe here adapted another of his own noveIs for the screen. Newcomer Tom Courtney is totaIly compelling as the sullen, disiIlusioned delinquent in this British New Wave classic, a passionate, explosive tale of rebeIlion
SpeciaI features
Commentary with lead actor Tom Courtenay and writer Alan Sillitoe, moderated by fiIm historian Robert Murphy Video essay by cinematographer WaIter LassaIIy Momma Don't AlIow (1956), Tony Richardson's Free Cinema documentary shot by WaIter LassaIIy
UK | 1962 | 99 minutes | DVD |
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