Chariots of Fire
A film is directed by Hugh Hudson and starring Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, follows two rivals (Britons Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddell). Harold & Eric are both naturally talented sprinters, however the approach running and how it fits into their believes differently - one a Jew and the other a Christian. They take part in 1924 Olympics.
9 April 1932, Collyhurst, Manchester, England, UK
23 May 1928, Shelford, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
August 28, 1928 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
31 August 1916, Southwark, London, England, UK
1928, Hendon, Middlesex, England, UK
6 November 1949, London, England, UK
24 February 1934, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
24 May 1931, Paris, France
31 July 1947, Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England, UK
12 September 1931, Goodmayes, Essex, England, UK
18 September 1946, England, UK
22 May 1949, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK
11 July 1955
1947, UK
14 June 1950, London, England, UK
1925, Greenwich, London, England, UK
12 June 1920, Wem, Shropshire, England, UK
24 August 1957, Hampstead, London, England, UK
14 April 1904, South Kensington, London, England, UK
February 21, 2015
The appeal will always be there for people to revisit Hudson's award-winner in a year of both the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics, despite perhaps being remembered a little too fondly.
February 21, 2015
Oddly, for a film about triumph over adversity, there's nothing as uplifting as the opening and closing jogs along a windswept beach.
August 04, 2015
It is an affirmation of clouded and second-hand values -- and, as a result, it becomes vulgar.
February 25, 2014
This 31-year-old Oscar winning true-life drama climaxing at the 1924 games proved a winner all the way. And it still is.
February 21, 2015
The film is not just about the race between Abrahams, the Jewish law student (Ben Cross), and Scottish missionary Eric Liddell (the late Ian Charleson). It's a character study and a social history too.
August 04, 2015
Despite its bombastic tendencies, Chariots has a healthy glow that's charming.
February 17, 2015
A movie that, with the help of Vangelis Papathanassiou's wonderfully stirring music, lifts the spirits to a new high.
February 21, 2015
From the opening scene of pale young men racing barefoot along the beach, full of hope and elation, backed by Vangelis's now famous anthem, the film is utterly compelling.
March 26, 2007
No imbalance mars the pic, whose cross-the-board achievement lifts it to an impressive level of unified accomplishment.
February 25, 2014
Vigorous but rather scattered.
August 01, 2008
Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted on to it, as so many characters in historical movies seem to be.
