RE: t-and-f: GOOD track & field movies/books?

[Chapman, Robert]

<<wasn't there a movie about a convict who runs a sub 4-minute mile time-trial in 
jail, and then throws his spikes over the fence (i.e. the 
freedom side) as the final scene?  I think it was the late 70's-early 
80's?>>

The Jericho Mile

RC