This Sporting Life is a 1963 British kitchen sink drama film directed by Lindsay Anderson. Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey, which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award, it recounts the story of a rugby league footballer in Wakefield, a mining city in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Storey, a former professional rugby league footballer, also wrote the screenplay.
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Based on | This Sporting Life by David Storey
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Release date | 7 February 1963 (London, West End)
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Running time | 134 minutes
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Country | United Kingdom
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Language | English
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Budget | £230,000
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