Richard Harris
Frank Machin
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This Sporting Life. This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful ...
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- Karel Reisz
A rugby star struggles with his ambition, anger and love in 1960s Yorkshire. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes and more for this Oscar-nominated film.
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- Lindsay Anderson
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- Drama, Sport
A British film about a miner turned rugby player in drab Yorkshire, directed by Lindsay Anderson and starring Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts. The film explores the themes of class, masculinity, and romance in kitchen-sink realism. Features a new high-definition transfer, audio commentary, and special features.
- Frank Machin
A 1963 classic of the "kitchen sink" genre, This Sporting Life depicts the brutal life of a rugby player and his unrequited love. The film features stunning black-and-white cinematography, raw performances and a bleak social commentary.
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- Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
- Lindsay Anderson
- The Rank Organization [Gb]
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This Sporting Life (1963) -- (Movie Clip) It's A Rough Game Frank (Richard Harris) has won a spot on the local rugby team (director Lindsay Anderson shooting at Belle Vue, Wakefield, West Yorkshire), thinking of his landlady (Rachel Roberts) and impressing the owner (Alan Badel), William Hartnell a scout who recruited him, in This Sporting Life ...
In drab early-1960s Wakefield, the volatile and aggressive young miner, Frank Machin, is determined to earn himself a place in the tough world of professional rugby and the local team. Hopelessly in love with his widowed and gloomily beautiful landlady, Mrs Margaret Hammond, Frank finds himself caught in the middle of his ferocious ambition and ...
