This Sporting Life 1963 123movies

Watch: This Sporting Life 1963 123movies, Full Movie Online – In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver’s, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like. He becomes increasingly frustrated with his situation, and this is not helped by the more straightforward enticements of Mrs Weaver..
Plot: In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 6,642
	96% | RottenTomatoes
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	N/A Votes: 86 Popularity: 5.522 | TMDB

Reviews:

Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts really do give the roles of their lives in this film
This Sporting Life may be a touch overlong, but it is overall a truly brilliant movie and still hits hard after all these years. It has a very realistic story, and the characters are given so much depth and realism it is hard not to empathise. The cinematography is wonderful, the setting is truly evocative, the direction is superb and the screenplay truthful and honest. There are many superb scenes, particularly some truly remarkable scenes of confrontation that are honest to the point it verges on painful to listen. As for the acting, Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts really do give the roles of their live in This Sporting Life, and are both absolutely brilliant as the ruthless professional rugby player and repressed widowed landlady with whom he can only communicate with through violence, and they are finely supported by the likes of Alan Badel and William Hartnell. Overall, brilliant film with a great cast and a hard-hitting sense of realism. 9/10 Bethany Cox

That’s Life.
Conscious during grueling dental surgery after an accident on the sports field, an egotistical rugby player recalls the highs and many lows of his sporting career in this stark British drama starring Richard Harris. Both Harris and co-star Rachel Roberts (playing a widowed landlady who he romances) received Oscar nominations for their roles, and both deliver fine turns, coming across as real human beings struggling to make it in a world where the odds seem stacked against them. The film’s arguable best assets though are its dreamy flashback structure and Roberto Gerhard’s terse and unsettling music score — and neither of these elements is consistent throughout. The music is mostly limited to the first few scenes, while the flashback structure oddly vanishes partway in and the film does not quite have the same edge with events playing out in real time. Between his constant bitterness and elevated sense of self-importance, Harris has a totally dislikeable character and he is consequently most sympathetic when in the dentist chair and forced to reflect. That said, the film is still fairly powerful in the post-dental scenes as Harris has very down-to-earth things to say, realising that rugby is not a lifetime career and stating “I need something for good… something permanent”. His scenes in the hospital towards the end are great too, and while quite brutal, the spider sequence truly seems to epitomise the culmination of negative emotions within him. This is quite an unhappy film and not the easiest one to watch, but it leaves an indelible impression for sure.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 14 min (134 min), 2 hr 2 min (122 min) (West Germany)
Budget 286281
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Drama, Sport
Director Lindsay Anderson
Writer David Storey
Actors Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
Country United Kingdom
Awards Nominated for 2 Oscars. 4 wins & 10 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.66 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm