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The Four Minute Mile
Film / 1988

The Four Minute Mile

Directed by Jim Goddard
HistoryDrama

★ 7.5/10Audience rating

For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile....

The story

For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. But events help set them on the path to something even more memorable than an Olympic gold medal - the race to break the four-minute mile....

Cast

Richard HuwRoger Bannister Nique NeedlesJohn Landy Adrian RawlinsChris Chataway John PhilbinWes Santee Michael YorkFranz Stampfl Lewis Fitz-GeraldDenis Johannson Tracy MannJill Webster Robert BurbageChris Brasher Adrian DunbarNorris McWhirter Richard WilsonHarold Abrahams Mark PennellDon MacMillan Ralph CotterillPercy Cerutty
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John O'MayBill Easton Stuart McCreeryLes Perry Chuck FaulknerAmerican Athletics Official Charles TingwellSandy Duncan Joe DolceAmerican Athletics Official John TordoffGroundsman Duke BannisterAmerican Athletics Official Geoffrey ChurchStudent Athlete Geoffrey BairdAustralian Journalist Nicholas HewetsonMedical Student Cliff EllenJim Johnson Martin GirvanHammer Thrower Nicholas DonovanChairman of Oxford University Athletic Club Peter Harvey-WrightMelbourne University Academic Ian FlintoffBBC Interviewer Teddy KempnerAmerican Journalist Edwin CraigAmerican Journalist John FlanaganPoliceman Tim BentinckFinnish Announcer Vincent MarzelloAmerican Journalist Colleen FitzpatrickElva Landy Alan CassellGordon Landy Michael O'ReillyYoung Runner Timothy KeeganTony Landy Peter LaneJohn Vernon Reg GormanVancouver Journalist Geneviève PicotMarjorie Jackson Colwyn RobertsVancouver Journalist Joanne CanningWinsome Cripps John MurphyVancouver Journalist John LarkingVancouver Journalist Geoffrey PullanVancouver Journalist Martin RedpathBritish Photographer Jacek KomanEmil Zatopek Dalibor SatalicFinnish Announcer Albie WoodingtonBritish Journalist Kevin CostelloBritish Journalist Michael GreatorexPhotographer Peter AndrewsCanadian Mountie Harry ParkinsonBritish Journalist Dawn EllisBritish Journalist Gary FilesDr Hiddleston Kurt GeyerAndy O'Brien Duncan GouldBritish Journalist Ray AshcroftBritish Journalist Tim EvansMarine Commanding Officer John LeeEnglish Doctor Rosemary MartinMrs Lambert Paul DavisonMurray Halberg Laurie DobsonMilk Bar Proprieter Graham DowAustralian Starter Andrew WallinBill Baillie Perry AtfieldCanadian Announcer Brian O'CallaghanAustralian Time Keeper James ShawCanadian Producer George TrotmanAustralian Referee John McTernanDave Garroway Peter TaborPasser-By Len KasermanCalifornia Interviewer Esme MelvilleLandlady Charles CollingwoodSchoolmaster William RussellAAA Official Robin DaglishAAA Official

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