Four Minute Fever
movie
View on VideBits →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.
Cast & crew
Gene Venzke · William Deeke · Harry Wismer · Jules Ladoumegue · Bill Bonthron · Arne Andersson · Fiorello LaGuardia · John Lovelock · Paavo Nurmi · Glenn Cunningham