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elleng

(130,908 posts) Mon May 17, 2021, 03:34 AM May 2021

*Coming up, TCM: 3:45 am The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)

1h 44m | Drama | TV-14
A boy from the Irish slums reviews his troubled past while training for a school race.
Director: Tony Richardson. Cast: Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage

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*Coming up, TCM: 3:45 am The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) (Original Post) elleng May 2021 OP

This film is great. Am recording it. IcyPeas May 2021 #1

IcyPeas

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1. This film is great. Am recording it.

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Mon May 17, 2021, 04:08 AM

May 2021

It's one of those British coming of age films ... bleak, depressing.... black and white. I've tried to watch all the film's in the Kitchen Sink Realism genre within this wiki article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism

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