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This Sporting Life (UK)
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.
1963-02-07
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/18774
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[1963] This Sporting Life - Your Saturday afternoon film is this drama based on the 1960 novel of the same name by David Storey. It recounts the story of a rugby league footballer, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining town in Yorkshire, whose romantic life is not as successful as his sporting life. Starring Richard Harris.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9KOD8WNb6I

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