I wonder if Ernest Hemingway had known the real Harold Abraham because he could have been a model for Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises. Though Benjamin Disraeli had been Prime Minister and Lord Isaacs as Chief Justice and Sir Herbert Samuel never had to convert as Disraeli did for a political career, the very top of British society was still closed to Jews. Cross as Abraham was a veteran of the war, though that fact is curiously downplayed in Chariots Of Fire. It was called The Great War and the contemplation of another was too horrible to imagine. Ben Cross and Ian Charleson play Harold Abraham and Eric Liddell who are among the survivors of a lost generation to enter college, Cambridge to be precise in 1919, the year after World War I ended. But it's still quite the inspirational story of two men on the British track team of the 1924 Olympics who ran to prove something, but not the same thing. I'm not sure Chariots Of Fire deserved to be the Best Picture of 1981, I think Reds, Atlantic City, or On Golden Pond deserved that honor. version provides a more shocking memento of WWI, when it shows crippled baggage handlers in the station) one of the reasons the cricket scene was dropped in favour of the station one was due to the distributor's worry that the American market would not understand it. This alternate version also have slightly different end credits, and does not mention Harold marrying Sybil. we shared a taxi together" (cut to the two students unloading their stuff from the car). We simply see Monty writing a letter to his parents, mentioning that "Harold is as intense as ever" (cut to the cricket scene, maybe 30 seconds long), and then continues with "I remember our first day. The scene in the train station, where Monty meets Harold is absent, as well as the loading of the baggage in the taxi they share. The beginning is different - shorter - and introduces Harold Abrahams while playing cricket with his colleagues. There is at least one slightly different version of the movie, issued in Europe on homevideo.
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