Film

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Director
Tony Richardson
Certificate
12A
Running Time
100 mins

The young Tom Courtenay excels as an angry borstal boy consumed by class hatred in the third and best of Tony Richardson‘s kitchen sink series after Look Back in Anger and A Taste of Honey.

https://youtu.be/XXMS5ZXKvYA

It’s back on screen in the Watershed’s epic Of Grudge and Gumption: British Working Class on Film Sunday brunch season.

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By robin askew, Friday, Aug 17 2018

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