This Sporting Life

February. 07,1963      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Richard Harris as  Frank Machin
Rachel Roberts as  Mrs. Margaret Hammond
Alan Badel as  Gerald Weaver
William Hartnell as  'Dad' Johnson
Colin Blakely as  Maurice Braithwaite
Vanda Godsell as  Mrs Anne Weaver
Jack Watson as  Len Miller
Arthur Lowe as  Charles Slomer
George Sewell as  Jeff
Leonard Rossiter as  Phillips, Sports Writer

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Reviews

Ehirerapp
1963/02/07

Waste of time

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Moustroll
1963/02/08

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Baseshment
1963/02/09

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Scarlet
1963/02/10

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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