The Great Game (1930)
- Directed by
- Jack Raymond
- Genre
- association football film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A man plays football while his personal life unfolds. The movie follows a footballer balancing his sport and relationships.
lighthearteddatedsports-centricsimplenostalgicbriskoptimisticstraightforward
What happens
The Great Game is a 1930 British film directed by Jack Raymond and starring John Batten and Renee Clama. It was written by Ralph Gilbert Bettison, William Hunter, John Lees and W. P. Lipscomb. It is one of the earliest feature films to use football as a central theme. Like The Winning Goal (1920) and The Ball of Fortune (1926), the main plot in The Great Game revolves around football. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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