The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

A lower-class young rebel named Colin Smith is convicted along with his friend Mike for shoplifting and petty crimes having to serve a sentence in a reformatory. The director of the reformatory is interested in his case and impresses him with his athletic abilities. He get his confidence and gives him the opportunity to do a race against local public school, but the road will not have it easy because he has to decide between life that give him his reformatory or not collaborate, as he has always done, and remaining the same subversive young. A 1962 sports drama directed by Tony Richardson and starring by Michael Redgrave, Tom Courtenay and Avis Bunnage. Producted by Woodfall Film Productions.