This Sporting Life (1963)

Directors

Lindsay Anderson

Cast

Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel, Vanda Godsell, William Hartnell, Colin Blakely, Anne Cunningham, Katherine Parr, Jack Watson, Leonard Rossiter, Bernadette Benson, Andrew Nolan, George Sewell, Edward Fox, Glenda Jackson

The story

Frank Machin is a bitter young coal miner from the West Riding of Yorkshire. The first part of the story is told through a series of flashbacks when Frank is anaesthetised in a dentist's chair, having had his front teeth broken in a rugby league match, and recovering at a Christmas party. The second part takes place after he has fully regained his senses, and proceeds without flashbacks.

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