Where can I watch this sporting life?
Right now you can watch This Sporting Life on Criterion Channel. You are able to stream This Sporting Life by renting or purchasing on iTunes or Amazon Instant Video.
What is the movie the Sporting Life about?
Yorkshire coal miner Frank Machin (Richard Harris) picks a fight in a club and subsequently finds himself being recruited for a rugby team. He’s an unpolished player, but his aggressiveness, brutality and indifference to the rules of fair play impress the team owners. Suddenly a rising star, Frank despairs that his success on the playing field isn’t equaled in his personal life. He loves a widowed, emotionally challenged landlady (Rachel Roberts) who’s too damaged to return his feelings.This Sporting Life / Film synopsis
Where was this sporting life filmed?
Many of the scenes in This Sporting Life were filmed at Wakefield Trinity’s stadium, Belle Vue and at the Halifax stadium Thrum Hall. The scene where Frank (Richard Harris) leaps from a bus to buy a newspaper, then leaps back onto the bus was filmed at the top of Westgate, Wakefield.
Who is the director of This Sporting Life?
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson.
What is the summary of This Sporting Life?
This Sporting Life ( 1963) This Sporting Life. Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.
Is This Sporting Life Lindsay Anderson’s most accomplished film?
English director and critic Lindsay Anderson is now best known for his Malcolm McDowell movies If… and O Lucky Man!, but his most accomplished film is surely his first. 1963’s This Sporting Life is a powerful addition to the British New Wave; Richard Harris’ working-class Rugby star Frank Machin may be the angriest ‘angry young man’ of them all.
Where was This Sporting Life filmed and where was it filmed?
The location is still instantly recognisable and has changed little in the decades since. The houses used for filming the outdoor scenes in This Sporting Life were in Servia Terrace in Leeds. The riverside location where Frank takes the family for an outing in his new car is Bolton Abbey in the Yorkshire Dales.