Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States
The story
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
- underdog
- sports
- scotland
- missionary
- olympic games
- jewry
- patriotism
- mayor
- praline
- olympian sports team
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Ben Cross
Harold Abrahams
Ian Charleson
Eric Liddell
Cheryl Campbell
Jennie Liddell
Alice Krige
Sybil Gordon
- Nigel Havers — Lord Andrew Lindsay
- Ian Holm — Sam Mussabini
- Nicholas Farrell — Aubrey Montague
- Daniel Gerroll — Henry Stallard
- John Gielgud — Master of Trinity
- Lindsay Anderson — Master of Caius
- Nigel Davenport — Lord Birkenhead
- Dennis Christopher — Charles Paddock
- Brad Davis — Jackson Scholz
- Patrick Magee — Lord Cadogan
- Peter Egan — Duke of Sutherland
- Directed
- Hugh Hudson
- Written
- Colin Welland
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 1,068 ratings
- Studio
- Enigma Productions, Allied Stars, 20th Century Fox
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