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Four Minute Fever

📅 1956 🕐 9m US US
IMDb tt0176728 TMDB 424120
Documentary

Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.

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Cast
Crew
Director William Deeke Editor Arthur Weiss Producer Earle Luby
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
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