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Monday, 12 July 2010

British New Wave: 'This Sporting Life' 1963.

'This Sporting Life' Trailer:


- Director: Lindsay Anderson
- Genre: Drama/Sport
- Setting: Wakefield, Yorkshire
- Plot Summery: Coal miner, Frank Machin becomes the local captain and then loose forward of his local rugby team. He uses widow Margret Hammond for sex and is violent towards her grieving state. They spilt up and she dies of a cerebral hemorrhage.
- Based on the novel 'This Sporting Life' by David Storey

Anderson was reluctant to make this film so soon after 'Saturday Night Sunday Morning' due to it's immediate success and similarity in style.

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