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starring: Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolamdirected by: Tony Richardson
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302344912
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302344913
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 17326
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: October 08, 1962
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - weaker character, weaker storytelling
i 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 Future
Tony 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 relevant
Tony 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 Medal
The 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
Rating: - The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
One of the best of Britain's Angry Young Man films, Richardson's expressive drama hinges on the complex psychology of Colin, an uneducated but cunning youth still smarting from the recent death of his father. Richardson builds tension by cutting between the restrictions and tensions of reform-school life and Colin's recollection of events leading up to his arrest and detention. Courtenay ("of "Billy Liar" fame) gives a haunting performance in the title role, and Redgrave is masterful playing a cold rehabilitator ... Read More
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