This Sporting Life (1963)




Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts - This Sporting Life




Despite success on the field, a rising rugby star senses the emerging emptiness of his life as his inner angst begins to materialize through aggression and brutality, so he attempts to woo his landlady in hopes of finding reason to live.


Books with substantial mentioning of This Sporting Life

Robert Murphy (ed.)
The British Cinema Book
London, 2009

Jürgen Müller (ed.)
Movies of the 60s
Köln, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Paris, Tokyo, 2005

Jonathan Hacker and David Price
Take 10, Contemporary British Film Directors
Oxford, New York, 1992

Anthony Slide
Fifty Classic British Films Films 1932-1982, A Pictorial Record
New York, 1985

Books with an entry on This Sporting Life

Ivan Butler
Cinema in Britain, An illustrated Survey
South Brunswick and New York - London, 1973