Which sport was the subject of the 1963 film This Sporting Life?
This Sporting Life This Sporting Life This Sporting Life is a 1963 British drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining town in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the screenplay. The film stars Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, William Hartnell and Alan Badel. The film was Harris's first starring role, and won him the Best Actor
This Sporting Life company would not venture further with "kitchen sink" film projects. Nor would his company make such a "squalid" film again. More generally, it ended producers willingness to back such British New Wave films. John Russell Taylor in 1980 thought it a mistake to link "This Sporting Life" with the "kitchen sink" films released in the preceding few years, because its "emotionalism" made it "unique", apart from Anderson's other work On 22 January 2008, the film was released as a Region 1 DVD by The Criterion Collection. This Sporting Life This Sporting Life is a 1963 British drama film directed by