If you don't run, you can't win.

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2007)

It was interesting as I watched this for the 3rd or 4th time that I never noticed that Dodie Fayed was the executive producer. Nothing special except that we are remembering his death 10 years ago with Princess Diana.
This film is also about being an Englishman and what that means. Like Fayed, Abrahams (Ben Cross) was an outsider, and that didn't always sit well with the power structure. But he played the game his way and won.
Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) also played the game his way and won the race and the respect of his countrymen.
Honor in the pursuit of excellence. A great story that never fades in the retelling.