The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Tom Courtenay made his film debut as Colin Smith, a lower-class British youth who is sent to a reformatory as a result of a robbery, in Tony Richardson's landmark Angry Young Man film. Mixed with Colin's reform-school experiences, spent training for a long-distance marathon against a rival institution, are his memories of the events that led up to his incarceration, including the death of his father (Peter Madden).