Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (MOD) (DVD Movie) Guys and Dolls Meredith Baxter (TV's "Family Ties"

Meredith Baxter (TV's "Family Ties" and "Bridget Loves Bernie") plays the wife who seems to have everything in this made-for-TV-movie

and star Barbara Payton

they have it in real life

Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause) directs

Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The (MOD) (DVD Movie) Guys and Dolls Meredith Baxter (TV's "Family Ties""Running has always been a big thing in our family. Especially from the police." So says taut jawed, wary eyed Colin, a promising distance runner. But he's not one of the burnished lads who gave all for England in Chariots of Fire. For working class reform school inmate Colin, the opposition isn't another runner. It's the Establishment. Tom Courtenay, (The Dresser, Doctor Zhivago) made a blazing screen debut in this, one of the best of the "angry