Hello everyone and welcome to this special reissue and introduction that we like to

do here on The Sin of Alls when someone that we've covered or someone who's film that

we thoroughly enjoyed has passed on.

I am the outlaw John Roca joined as always by my co-host Steve Morris.

How are you Steve?

I am very good and I just been thinking this morning about this film which I know moved

both of us an awful lot.

Absolutely and the film we're talking about is Chariots of Fire in case you just hit play

and didn't even look at the title of this particular one but it is Chariots of Fire and sadly

we are doing the special introduction because of the recent passing of the director of this film

Sir Hugh Hudson.

This is such an anomaly of a film and especially an anomaly of a director who didn't really go

on to have this wonderful sterling career of phenomenal films that were nominated for Oscars.

This is such an interesting and unusual film that struck at a time in 1981 when you know not a lot

of foreign films and that includes British films were necessarily breaking through the Oscars

breaking through.

There were some performances from British films that were being recognized but there weren't a lot

of British films that were necessarily being seen as best picture contenders and this one

beat out quite a who's who of great films from 1981 to agate nominated and beat to actually win

and some more of the snootier and I don't mean snootier in terms of arrogant,

conceded film connoisseurs.

I mean some of the people who are like you know it should only be populist films that should

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