good movie

Rating: 8/10 (25 January 2004)

CAUTION: THERE ARE SPOILERS!!!!!!!
The movie starts with the British team running across the Atlantic Ocean, with Aubrey Montague (Nicholas Farrell) smiling as others run by.
Later, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) and Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) run a race at Caius University. I think Eric Liddell won.
After Abrahams loses another race to Liddell, he enlists the help of track coach Sam Mussabini (Ian Holm in a fine role), who shows him several ways to make him faster.
At the end of the movie, Liddell and Abrahams have to join together on the British team (Abrahams is English, Liddell Scottish) against the Americans in the 1924 Olympics. They both win gold medals.
The movie ends with the funeral of Harold Abrahams, and the epilogue states that Eric Liddell had been killed in the 1940s.
This is a fine movie, with a superb cast (Ian Holm, John Gielgud, Ian Charleson, Ben Cross, Alice Krige, etc.), a great score by Vangelis, and winner of 4 Oscars, including Best Picture 1981.