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The Sporting Club is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Larry Peerce and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. It is based the 1968 novel The Sporting Club by Thomas McGuane. The film stars Robert Fields, Nicolas Coster, Maggie Blye, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and William Roerick. The film was released on February 28, 1971, by Avco Embassy ...
Feb 28, 1971 · The Sporting Club: Directed by Larry Peerce. With Robert Fields, Margaret Blye, Nicolas Coster, Jack Warden. The new groundskeeper at the Centennial Sporting Club decides to do something about the very odd goings-on there.
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- Comedy, Drama, Sport
- Larry Peerce
- 1971-02-28
The Sporting Club marked the production company's first feature film. In May 1969, Publishers Weekly quoted the price of the sale as $75,000 and mentioned Avco Embassy Pictures, headed by Joseph E. Levine, as a partner in the production.
- Larry Peerce, Stephen Barnett, Ronald Grow
- Robert Fields
Apr 3, 2020 · A wealthy anarchist and the continuously stoned manager of his backwoods getaway for rich elites engage in a wax-bullet gun duel. Starring Robert Fields, Jac...
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- Empty Balcony
The Sporting Club chronicles the friendship and rivalry of Vernor Stanton, an unstable patrician iconoclast, and the protagonist, Stanton's lifelong friend, James Quinn. Throughout the course of the novel, Stanton enlists Quinn on a series of misadventures and wild episodes, the aim of which is to ultimately destabilize the Centennial Club, a summer sporting resort for upper-class Michigan ...
THE SPORTING CLUB (1971) - Businessman James Quinn (Nicolas Coster) sets out for a peaceful getaway of hunting, fishing, and drinking at the Centennial Club, a backwoods retreat whose wealthy members all value insularity and tradition.
The Sporting Club is a 1971 American comedy film directed by Larry Peerce and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr. It is based the 1968 novel The Sporting Club by Thomas McGuane. The film stars Robert Fields, Nicolas Coster, Maggie Blye, Jack Warden, Richard Dysart and William Roerick. The film was released on February 28, 1971, by Embassy Pictures.
