The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

Directors

Tony Richardson

Cast

Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, James Bolam, Joe Robinson, Julia Foster

The story

The film opens with Colin Smith running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, he says that running is the way his family has always coped with the world's troubles, but that, in the end, the runner is always alone and cut off from spectators, left to deal with life on his own. Colin is then shown with a group of other young men, all handcuffed.

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