The second Pre movie is "Without Limits" which is on the list. Ed Koch
-----Original Message----- From: Ed Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: track net <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, December 20, 2001 12:05 PM Subject: t-and-f: Rating track movies >Netters: > Ed Koch's list of track films had a few omissions, one of them being >"The Human Comedy." where Mickey Rooney was a HS hurdler (if you can figure >that one out---at least it was the low hurdles). It came out toward the end >of WW II< the scropt was by William Saroyan and it had a first class cast. >Propabably rated about 3 stars. > > Can't believe the 3-star rating Maltin gave "Personal Best," a piece >of junk if ever there was one. > > I would rate the Geb movie over the one Pre movie I saw (can't >remember by title, but it was the one with Donald Sutherland as Bowerman). >It was unpretentious and as real as any movie about our sport can get, > > IMHO, "Olympia" stands by itself, the greatest sports documentary of >all time, as well as a reflection, sometimes unintnded, of an Olympics whose >histoiral setting will never be matched. > > Ed Grant. >
