- Year: 1963
- Released: 22 Feb 1963
- Country: United Kingdom
- Adwords: Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 10 nominations total
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057578/
- Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/This_Sporting_Life
- Available in: 720p, 1080p,
- Language: English
- MPA Rating: Not Rated
- Genre: Drama, Sport
- Runtime: 134 min
- Writer: David Storey
- Director: Lindsay Anderson
- Cast: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
- Keywords: based on novel or book, sports, widow, yorkshire, northern england,
7.5/10 | |
95% – Critics | |
86% – Audience |
This Sporting Life Storyline
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 his unrequited love for the unattainable object of his desire, completely unable to break free from the agony of his bottled-up emotions. Now, all the riches of the world can’t buy Frank happiness. What is the price the rough rugby player will have to pay for his success?
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This Sporting Life Movie Reviews
The streets, the houses, the shops, the pubs, the clubs and the children playing
Gripping, arresting and totally believable from the start, this is excitingly authentic. The terrible game of rugby league football is beautifully shot in all the horror of its violent thuggery and macho heroism. The streets, the houses, the shops, the pubs, the clubs and the children playing all evoke memories of that admittedly dreary but familiar visions. The living spaces, some cramped and dinged, like mine a that time, and others spacious and exuding that illusive smell of success (or upper class thuggery!) All this is fine and Richard Harris is fully believable as the film’s angry young man. It is just that as the, rather overlong, film continues we get less of the ‘sporting life’ and the ‘dead end streets’ and more of the ‘love’ story and rather clumsy stabs at class warfare. In the end we are rather tiring of all the ‘I love you’, ‘I hate you’ cries and welcome the closing credit but it is still very much a worth seeing film that probably catches more of what it really felt like to be in Britain late 50s/early 60s than any other film I have seen.
Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts really do give the roles of their lives in this film
This Sporting Life may be a touch overlong, but it is overall a truly brilliant movie and still hits hard after all these years. It has a very realistic story, and the characters are given so much depth and realism it is hard not to empathise. The cinematography is wonderful, the setting is truly evocative, the direction is superb and the screenplay truthful and honest. There are many superb scenes, particularly some truly remarkable scenes of confrontation that are honest to the point it verges on painful to listen. As for the acting, Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts really do give the roles of their live in This Sporting Life, and are both absolutely brilliant as the ruthless professional rugby player and repressed widowed landlady with whom he can only communicate with through violence, and they are finely supported by the likes of Alan Badel and William Hartnell. Overall, brilliant film with a great cast and a hard-hitting sense of realism. 9/10 Bethany Cox