Greatest running movies ever made...

Saint Ralph, sweet running movie that most people have never heard of.

BORING

Vision Quest and American Flyers are worth owning.

Chariots of Fire

Endurance

Fire on the Track

Without Limits

Running Brave

Olympiad

Jerrico Mile

See How She Runs

My Way (a MUST classic, man!)

There was this one movie I saw on TV when I was in middle school... Can't even remember the name but it was something about this young Australian kid who ran Olympic marathon... It was pretty well-made too. Wich I can remember the title.

chariots of fire won the award

Meatballs is the greatest running movie ever.

Rudy the Rabbit FTMFW

St.Ralph was the worst movie I have ever seen.

The Games

in the bad running movie column:

Marathon Man

He had a poster of Bikla in his apartment, had a short sequence running around the reservoir, and away from the Nazis et al. but mostly lame and contrived tie-in. This was it in the wake of Shorter: it was new, hip, interesting to be a marathoner.

ANY running movie is a good movie, since we have so few, out there, through the years. I'll watch it, whatever; good, bad or average.

djäveln:

Sadly, I second. Even more sadly, I used to have the Abebe scenes put together until I got "Olympiad" (Kon Ichikawa's movie and Bud Greenspan's "Olympiad").

Also there was a movie with Michael Duglas in it--I think it was called "Running"; supposedly somewhat portraying Frank Shorter (they do kinda look a like...) at Montreal Olympics though Frank finished much higher place than merely "finishing it". I thought it was pretty well-made.

There also was a movie with Bruce Dern and Garry Bjorklund in it. "On the Edge"? That was pretty good except for Bruce Dern running in one size too small New Zealand Split shorts! "When you run downhill, shout 'BURN!'" I like that...

Across the tracks isnt too bad. It has Brad Pitt in it (before he became big).

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Gallipoli

Across the tracks, starring Brad Pitt

Dickens wrote:

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner

Gallipoli

Watched "Loneliness..." the other week and was a bit disappointed. Sillitoe's short story is much better than the film IMHO. Also funny that both "Loneliness.." and "Chariots of Fire" have Jerusalem in them.

r u kidding? wrote:

ANY running movie is a good movie, since we have so few, out there, through the years. I'll watch it, whatever; good, bad or average.

Sorry, but I just can't agree. A bad running movie is a bad movie, period. And, unfortunately, there have been quite a few really bad ones--that Michael Douglas movie from the early 1980s being a case in point. "Endurance" is by far the best of the batch--and it's a truly fine film, if a bit slow for most people.

I gotta vote for one of the worst movies (running or non-running) ever. Has anybody remember (gosh, I feel old...!), what's the name there, "Super Girl"? It's about this young blond sprinter (can't remember her name but she dated Silvester Stallone for a while). I laughed my guts out (okay, I guess in that sense it was a great comedy!) because it was so obvious they fast-forwarded the sprinting race scene because they all looked like, well, non-runners!

You're thinking of "Goldengirl," with Susan Anton.

By the way, there's absolutely no connection between Frank Shorter and the Michael Douglas character in the truly awful "Running."

"The Games," with Michael Crawford and Charles Aznavour, is the one to see.

Yeah, that's the one! And about Shorter and that character in "Running" was somewhere I read an interview to Michael Douglas and the guy asked him about Frank Shorter and his resembrance. You're right, though, the character was far from IV league inteligent kinda guy at all. I guess I said it because I always thought Shorter looked somewhat like Michael Douglas and I remembered that one question in that interview. I don't even remember his reply to that... Actually, I thought it was the interview in the old "the Runner" magazine. I actually thought that was an okay movie except for him running to work in suit and pants with his tie tied around his head, wearing green and yellow Nike Waffle Racer...