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Film Details - CB Seven Productions ; Centre Films , 1988
Producers:
Pom Oliver (Producer)
Errol Sullivan (Producer)
Ross Dimsey (Executive Producer)
Graham Massey (Executive Producer)
Production Companies:
CB Seven Productions
Centre Films
Finance Organisations:
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Director of Photography:
Ian Warburton
Editors:
Ken Pearce
Barry Munro
Production Designers:
Tracy Watt
Don Taylor
Composer:
Richard Hartley
Cast:
Richard Huw (Roger Bannister), Nique Needles (John Landy), Adrian Rawlins (Chris Chataway), John Philbin (Wes Santee), Michael York (Franz Stampfl), Lewis Fitz-Gerald (Denis Johannson), Tracy Mann (Jill Webster), Robert Burbage (Chris Brasher), Adrian Dunbar (Norris McWhirter), Richard Wilson (Harold Abrahams), Mark Pennell (Don MacMillan), Ralph Cotterill (Percy Cerutty), John O'May (Bill Easton), Stuart McCreery (Les Perry), Charles 'Bud' Tingwell (Sandy Duncan), John Tordoff (Groundsman) Geoffrey Church (Student Athlete), Geoffrey Baird (Australian Journalist), Cliff Ellen (Jim Johnson), Martin Girvan (Hammer Thrower), Nicholas Donovan (Chairman of Oxford University Athletic Club), Peter Harvey-Wright (Melbourne University Academic), Teddy Kempner (American Journalist), Edwin Craig (American Journalist), Vincent Marzello (American Journalist), Colleen Fitzpatrick (Elva Landy), Alan Cassell (Gordon Landy), Timothy Keegan (Tony Landy), Geneviève Picot (Marjorie Jackson), Joanne Canning (Winsome Cripps), Martin Redpath (British Photographer), Jacek Koman (Emil Zatopek), Dalibor Satalic, Albie Woodington, Kevin Costello, Harry Parkinson, Dawn Ellis, Duncan Gould, Ray Ashcroft, Rosemary Martin, Laurie Dobson, Graham Dow, Brian O'Callaghan, George Trotman, Peter Tabor, Len Kaserman, Esme Melville, Charles Collingwood, William Russell, Robin Daglish, Tim Burns, Mark Clarke.
Release Dates:
1. Premiered on ABC Television on 15 September 1988
2. Released on DVD format by Umbrella Entertainment in 2005.
