Chariots of Fire

Unlike the recent pattern of waiting on the NetFlix mail to arrive, this movie was next on the list and then sat on the kitchen counter for almost a month.  Chariots of Fire, a movie from my college days, 1981, was never a movie that I had any interest in. To me it looked like another gay English type of movie where, men ran along the beach feeling really proud about how handsome they are.
This is a movie recounting of amateur careers of Olympic runners who have survived their departed teammates. The period follows World War I and is based on the the successes of the English track team. In that English manner of snobbery, they through superior character overcome the favored , over trained, under educated American runners. Given that back ground the English do overcome the Americans for triumph.
This all was what actually happened, but strikes me as a parallel to the American gold medal victory in hockey, a clinging to an unlikely set of events and results.  Enough already.
The cast English runners, was largely as set of unknowns at the time,

• Nicholas Farrell as Aubrey Montague
• Ian Charleson as Eric Liddell
• Ben Cross as Harold Abrahams
• Daniel Gerroll as Henry Stallard

The American runners are only briefly present but oddly enough are played by more recognizable actors.

• Dennis Christopher as Charles Paddock, Christopher of one of my favorite movies Breaking Away
• Brad Davis as Jackson Scholz, the departed Davis, well known for the lead in the historic Midnight Express

I sat through the whole thing but will not again.
Not worth the expense.