This Sporting Life

Synopsis

In Northern England in the early 1960s, Frank Machin is mean, tough and ambitious enough to become an immediate star in the rugby league team run by local employer Weaver.

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When & where

Streaming on

• YouTube TV↗
• Criterion Channel↗

Top of the call sheet

• 
  Richard Harris
  as Frank Machin
• 
  Rachel Roberts
  as Mrs. Margaret Hammond
• 
  Alan Badel
  as Gerald Weaver
• 
  William Hartnell
  as 'Dad' Johnson
• 
  Colin Blakely
  as Maurice Braithwaite
• 
  Vanda Godsell
  as Mrs Anne Weaver

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