The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner | |
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Directed by | Tony Richardson |
Screenplay by | Alan Sillitoe |
Based on | "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" 1959 story by Alan Sillitoe |
Produced by | Tony Richardson |
Starring | Michael Redgrave Tom Courtenay Avis Bunnage James Bolam Dervis Ward Topsy Jane |
Cinematography | Walter Lassally |
Edited by | Antony Gibbs |
Music by | John Addison |
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Distributed by | British Lion Films |
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Running time | 104 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £130,211[1] |
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 British coming-of-age film directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. The screenplay was written by Alan Sillitoe, based on his 1959 short story of the same title, and concerns a rebellious youth who has been sentenced to a borstal for burgling a bakery. He gains privileges in the institution through his prowess as a long-distance runner, but reveries of important events before his incarceration that he has during his solitary runs lead him to re-evaluate his status as the prize athlete of the Governor.
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