The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 film, based on the short story of the same name. The screenplay, like the short story, was written by Alan Sillitoe. The film was directed by Tony Richardson, one of the new young directors emerging from documentary films, specifically a series of 1950s filmmakers known as the Free Cinema movement.

The film was heavily sampled in the Chumbawamba song Alright Now, and text from the book upon which the film is based formed the cover of their single Just Look at Me Now a monologue starts in plain grey typeface on the front and another appears on the back.The film opens with Colin Smith Tom Courtenay running, alone, along a bleak country road somewhere in rural England. In a brief voiceover, Colin tells us that running is the way his family has always coped with the worlds troubles, but that in the end, the runner is always alone and cut off from spectators, left to deal with life on his own. ........

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