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unusual facts about sports film



A Great Coup

A Great Coup is a 1919 British silent sports film directed by George Dewhurst and Walter West and starring Stewart Rome, Poppy Wyndham and Gregory Scott.

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice

Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice is a 2002 American sports film starring Stephen Baldwin and Gary Busey and directed by Steve Boyum.

Sportszerelem

Sportszerelem is a 1936 Hungarian sports comedy film directed by Zoltán Farkas and László Kardos and starring Kálmán Latabár, Edith Zeisler and Géza Boross.

The Marathon Runner

The Marathon Runner (German: Der Läufer von Marathon) is a 1933 German sports film directed by Ewald André Dupont and starring Brigitte Helm, Hans Brausewetter and Ursula Grabley.

Up for the Derby

Up for the Derby is a 1933 British sports comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring Sydney Howard, Dorothy Bartlam and Tom Helmore.


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Clem McCarthy

Years after McCarthy's death, sports film maker Bud Greenspan compared the audio of the race call with newsreel film of the race, and discovered that McCarthy had stated, "...and the crowd blocks me for a moment..." at the exact point where the two horses had switched places.

Fayetteville Generals

Sports film buffs will recognize the Generals as one of the teams the Durham Bulls played against in the 1988 movie Bull Durham.

Jamie Blake

In 2010 she collaborated with a select group of artists on the movie soundtrack for "9191" including Hesta Prynn, Dave Lombardo (Slayer), Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers, Mike Conte of Early Man and snowboarder Jamie Lynn which won the ESPN Snowboard Picture Awards for Best Soundtrack as well as Best Soundtrack at the Summit Action Sports Film Festival.