Production
This was Anderson's first feature film as director, although he had won an Oscar for his short documentary, Thursday's Children (1953), one of many documentaries he had made in the previous decade. The project had first been discussed by the Rank Organisation as a possible project for Joseph Losey, the exiled American film maker, and then was passed to Karel Reisz who, reluctant to direct another film on a Northern England subject so soon after Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), passed it to his friend, Lindsay Anderson. Anderson accepted and Reisz produced.
Notable among the supporting cast is William Hartnell, who would soon gain notice as the First Doctor on Doctor Who. It was his role in This Sporting Life which brought Hartnell to the attention of the first Doctor Who producer Verity Lambert. It also featured the future Dad's Army star, Arthur Lowe, who also appeared in four later films directed by Anderson.
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