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Certificate 12

Cast Tom Courtenay Michael Redgrave Avis Bunnage Peter Madden

Directors Tony Richardson

Screenwriters Alan Sillitoe

Running Time 104 minutes

The Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner
Michael Redgrave and the debuting Tom Courtenay are excellent in this 'grim oop north' Alan Sillitoe tale.

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Plot
Sent to the Ruxton Towers for robbing a bakery, Nottingham teenager Colin Smith thinks back on his dead-end life while training for the cross-country race against a nearby public school that is the over-riding preoccupation of the borstal's governor.

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