British sporting movies
Posted: April 20th, 2008, 3:41 am
The Love Match sees James Kenny play for football (that's what i'll call it, though it's known as Soccer in U.S) United while his dad Arthur Askey supports rivals City
The Final Test sees Jack Warner (of The Blue Lamp and Dixon Of Dock Green fame) as a International cricketer in the build up to and his final Test Match), only his intellectual son hates the sport and on the same say looks up famous writer Robert Morely, only to discover his hero is a cricket nut. the film also has cameos from real cricketers like the Captain Len Hutton and off-spin bowler Jim Laker.
This Sporting Life was a great kitchen sink drama about a rugby league player Richard Harris lodging with Rachel Roberts and her family. looking at it now it shows the sportsman, particulary rugby league players didn't earn much money, not like today!
Yesterday's Hero saw pop star and football Chairman Paul Nicholas (Keith Lennox in The Jazz Singer) plucking his old hero, but now drunken Ian McShane and putting him into his lower league team in his quest to win the F.A Cup , much to the annoyance of his manager, played by one time pop star the late Adam Faith. one interesting sideline was that later Elton John bought Watford football club and became its Chairman in the clubs most successful period, which included reaching the F.A Cup final.
Charriots Of Fire looked at the lives of five athletes in the build up and during the 1924 Pariss Olyimpic Games, mainly concentrating on Ben Cross' Harold Abrahams and Ian Charlston's Eric Liddell
Champions was a true gripping story of how cancer stricken Bob Champion, as played by John Hurt, recovered and won The Grand National. Edward Woodward played horse trainer Josh Gifford.
tv has had a go a football themes, but like Footballers Wives had more to do what was happening of the pitch than on it. however, i liked The Manageress, which saw Cherie Lungie star as the first (in real life, it still hasn't happened) football manager in the English Football League.
Bend It Like Beckham is the best football movie made to date, in a film about two girl footballers. i wish they'd make a sequel, because the film finished with them going to play professional in the U.S
Best was for the most part a poor inaccurate account of the life of George Best, with the main actor the film's weakest link. the film however, has good performances by Ian Bannon (his last film) as Manager Sir Matt Busby and Linus Roach as famed striker Denis Law
A Shot At Glory is a film starring Michael Keaton as Chairman and Robert Duvall as a Scot's Manager of a lowly Scottish football team, who win th Scottish F.A Cup. One of the team's players is played by Ally Mcoist, the fromer Rangers and Scotland striker, who was a tv personality at the time. now he's Rangers assistant Manager
The Final Test sees Jack Warner (of The Blue Lamp and Dixon Of Dock Green fame) as a International cricketer in the build up to and his final Test Match), only his intellectual son hates the sport and on the same say looks up famous writer Robert Morely, only to discover his hero is a cricket nut. the film also has cameos from real cricketers like the Captain Len Hutton and off-spin bowler Jim Laker.
This Sporting Life was a great kitchen sink drama about a rugby league player Richard Harris lodging with Rachel Roberts and her family. looking at it now it shows the sportsman, particulary rugby league players didn't earn much money, not like today!
Yesterday's Hero saw pop star and football Chairman Paul Nicholas (Keith Lennox in The Jazz Singer) plucking his old hero, but now drunken Ian McShane and putting him into his lower league team in his quest to win the F.A Cup , much to the annoyance of his manager, played by one time pop star the late Adam Faith. one interesting sideline was that later Elton John bought Watford football club and became its Chairman in the clubs most successful period, which included reaching the F.A Cup final.
Charriots Of Fire looked at the lives of five athletes in the build up and during the 1924 Pariss Olyimpic Games, mainly concentrating on Ben Cross' Harold Abrahams and Ian Charlston's Eric Liddell
Champions was a true gripping story of how cancer stricken Bob Champion, as played by John Hurt, recovered and won The Grand National. Edward Woodward played horse trainer Josh Gifford.
tv has had a go a football themes, but like Footballers Wives had more to do what was happening of the pitch than on it. however, i liked The Manageress, which saw Cherie Lungie star as the first (in real life, it still hasn't happened) football manager in the English Football League.
Bend It Like Beckham is the best football movie made to date, in a film about two girl footballers. i wish they'd make a sequel, because the film finished with them going to play professional in the U.S
Best was for the most part a poor inaccurate account of the life of George Best, with the main actor the film's weakest link. the film however, has good performances by Ian Bannon (his last film) as Manager Sir Matt Busby and Linus Roach as famed striker Denis Law
A Shot At Glory is a film starring Michael Keaton as Chairman and Robert Duvall as a Scot's Manager of a lowly Scottish football team, who win th Scottish F.A Cup. One of the team's players is played by Ally Mcoist, the fromer Rangers and Scotland striker, who was a tv personality at the time. now he's Rangers assistant Manager