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DVD : The Loneliness of the Long Distance RunnerIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam directed by: Tony Richardson  List Price: $19.98 Amazon.com's Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0085391116868 Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: February 13, 2007 Running Time: 104 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: October 08, 1962 Sales Rank: 28166 MPN: WARD111686D Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/13/2007 Rating: Nr Amazon.com: A bleak, but powerful 1960 British film that ranks as one of the most important United Kingdom imports of the decade. Director Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) tells the story of a rebellious social misfit and petty thief played by Tom Courtenay (The Dresser) who is picked to run on the track team at a reform school for boys. He finds he must balance his spirit and desire to win with his anger and frustration at the life he has led. At times a wrenching character study with no easy answers, Courtenay's performance is a touching portrait of a young man and the journey he takes as he tries to run not only for an unclear future, but from a past he cannot forget. A film indicative of the working class expressionism that came out of England in the early 1960s, Richardson's films stands alone as a downbeat, but insightful story of one man's struggle to determine who he is. --Robert Lane Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cagesThis here half forgotten 1962 masterpiece, shot in gorgeous B&W, is a trad gem worth discovering again. "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" was one of the key "angry young man films" of its era, but its raw power & stark beauty still resonate today. The wonderful Tom Courtenay plays the title character, Colin Smith, a working class kid whose life is up the junction & then some. Following a string of petty crimes, Colin is thrown in the clink - British reform school ... Read More Rating:  - weaker character, weaker storytellingi saw this movie in high school, and they asked us why it ends the way it does. it wasn't at all clear to me why it ended that way. only reading the story gave me the answer to that, and there was no ambiguity about it. in the movie the ending doesn't seem to be supported by the action we've seen. a good movie has to make a strong appeal to reality with the plot. it has to be true to the way people genuinely behave, or the story has no meaning. unless it's intentionally absurd or ... Read More Rating: - The Emptiness of the Working Class FutureTony Richardson and Allan Sillitoe have combined again for another great movie about the British working class. The trouble with this and other such movies about this subject is the emptiness it conveys. Growing up in America is decidedly different although there will be many who would dispute that. However, what comes across clearly in movies such as this, "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning", "Look Back in Anger" and others is that there is no hope for the young working class to raise their status. ... Read More Rating:  - Still powerful and relevantTony Richardson is today a relatively neglected director but back in the 1960's was responsible for as many good and important British movies as anyone else in UK cinema-as per Tom Jones ,A Taste of Honey ,The Entertainer ,The Charge of the Light Brigade .This is for me his key work and is a superior example of the "angry young man"movement in movies . Tom Courtenay plays Colin Smith, a poorly educated youth sent to Borstal - a sort of British youth reformatory -for robbing a baker's shop.The ... Read More Rating: - Gold MedalThe British New Wave which was inspired by the location work, documentary style and class concerns of the Free Cinema movement was very much the dour, dreary and depressing side of British cinema in the 1960's. British cinema however finally began to express itself with a uniquely national tone not seen since the documentary movement of the 1930's. Whilst Hammer provided the colour, glamour and unbridled sexual passions of the day, the productions of Bryantston, Woodfall et al were furious indictments of social ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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