Four Minute Fever (1956)
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.
- Date of release
- 1956-06-08
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 9m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- William Deeke
Casting
- Harry Wismer — Narrator
- Paavo Nurmi — Himself (archive footage)
- Harry Wismer — Narrator (voice)
- Fiorello LaGuardia — Himself (archive footage)
- Arne Andersson — Himself (archive footage)
- Jules Ladoumegue — Himself (archive footage)
- Bill Bonthron — Himself (archive footage)
- John Lovelock — Himself (archive footage)
- Glenn Cunningham — Himself (archive footage)
- Gene Venzke — Himself (archive footage)
- Sidney Wooderson — Himself (archive footage)
- Gunder Hägg — Himself (archive footage)
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