THIS SPORTING LIFE

Anderson's first feature is a gritty tour de force. Harris plays an inarticulate ex-miner turned rugby player and Roberts the embittered, widowed landlady for whom he conceives a blind passion. Uncompromising and one of the best films of the British New Wave.

Director Lindsay Anderson

Drama 1963, b/w 134 mins, Independent

Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel

AAN: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts