Alec McCowen, Avis Bunnage, Frank Finlay
A rebellious Nottingham working-class youth, sent to reform school, is singled out to represent that school in a long distance race against an upper-class boys institution.
DVD Release Date: February 13, 2007
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March 28, 2009Colin Smith is a rebel with a cause, the furious voice and spirit of the proletariat, the people who have to suffer for the privileged and get nothing in exchange but a terrible burden.
A battle against an opressive system, depicted in a fiery and emotive way. Magnificent chara...( read more) -
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July 8, 2009entertaining kitchen sink drama from the 60s britain, as a young criminal goes to borstal school, and takes up sports, we follow his exploits inside while flashbacking to hisdays outside before the crime. all leads are exellent, british acting from the past at its finest, showing...( read more)
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April 17, 2009Dreary Brit comes of age. Sometimes fierce, Courtenay makes an impression.
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April 2, 2009The film is an incisive portrait of the personal struggle between conformity and identity that is inherent in the process of maturity, where youthful idealism and a sense of invulnerability collides with the travails of everyday survival and the realization of human frailty.
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January 7, 2009Immediately I was transported to another country in another time period. I fell asleep right away because it was too late into the evening to try to decipher what the characters were saying. The next day I put on the subtitles, which helped IMMENSELY. For people who are not used ...( read more)
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April 17, 2008I probably had my expectations set too high for this as I was expecting something on par with the fantastic 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning'. Both are after all 'angry young men' dramas from the same period and with the same setting and tone.
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