Some great performances and some truly interesting direction from Anderson turn what could've been a run-of-the-mill drama into a particularly engaging story. The film's use of flashbacks is at times hard to follow, but ultimately works fairly well.
This review of This Sporting Life (1963) was written by Joseph W on 18 Feb 2009.
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