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Four Minute Fever
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- Documentary
Overview
Using newsreel footage, this Sportscope entry chronicles the race toward running's four-minute mile, highlighting several important contests. It starts in the 1920's, when Finland's Paavo Nurmi set the record for the distance at 4 minutes 10.4 seconds. It continues through Roger Bannister's first run under 4 minutes in 1954, and ends in spring 1956, when Australia's Joe Bailey became the first to break 4 minutes on US soil.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- June 8, 1956
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Cast
- Roger Bannister,Bill Bonthron,Gene Venzke,Glenn Cunningham,Paavo Nurmi,Sidney Wooderson,Fiorello LaGuardia,Gunder Hagg,John Landy,Laszlo Taboriand 7 more
- Director
- William Deeke
- Producer
- Earle Luby
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0176728