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But a movies nostalgic thrust can lie beyond its story, too.
But the real sense memory one gets from watching the film is of a more recent vintage.
I took such movies for granted back in the day, but I must admit I miss them now.
That maybe sounds like a back-handed compliment.
This was an unlikely group of working-class novices who made it all the way to the Berlin Olympics.
The film is an unshowy but slick underdog sports picture, fluidly told and elegantly mounted.
Hes a man of few words, too proud to mention his impoverished circumstances to anybody.
When Rantz and Morris show up for the schools rowing trials, the crowd around them is huge.
(Old money versus no money at all, as a radio announcer puts it at one point.)
At the start of his career, the actor seemed to be somewhat lost.
His downcast energy didnt always translate to the intensity some of his early roles called for.
Correction: A previous version of this article mistakenly referred to the Munich Olympics instead of the Berlin Olympics.
