Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Buy This Item Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $11.49  on 8-31-2008     The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 Oscar for best picture, <i>Chariots of Fire</i> either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris Olympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who has to surmount the institutional hurdles of class prejudice and anti-Semitism. There's delicious support from Ian Holm (as Abrahams's coach) and John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a couple of Cambridge fogies. Vangelis's soaring synthesized score, which seemed to be everywhere in the early 1980s, also won an Oscar. <i>Chariots of Fire</i> was the debut film of British television commercial director Hugh Hudson (Greystoke) and was produced by David Puttnam. <i>--Jim Emerson</i> Reader Reviews I can't review - product still has not arrived - I would recommend dealers who do not use USPS but UPS instead - or DHL is better.

Chariots of Fire (Two-Disc Special Edition) Available from Amazon Price: $11.49 Updated on 8-31-2008.

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