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🎬 Movie

This Sporting Life

📅 1963 ⭐ 7.0 🕐 2h 14m

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Drama

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

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Cast

Mrs. Margaret Hammond

William Hartnell

Maurice Braithwaite

Mrs Anne Weaver

Anne Cunningham

Leonard Rossiter

Phillips, Sports Writer

Bernadette Benson

Anthony Woodruff

Tom, Head Waiter

Restaurant Barman (uncredited)

Crew

Director Lindsay Anderson Art Direction Alan Withy Editor Peter Taylor Novel David Storey Original Music Composer Roberto Gerhard Producer Karel Reisz Screenplay David Storey

Production

J. Arthur Rank Organisation

Julian Wintle/Leslie Parkyn Productions

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