Some rowing footage and is a beautiful movie. He brings the students outside for an exercise outside the classroom.about 3-5 seconds of rowing. Dead Poets Society, 1989 English professor John Keating (Robin Williams) inspires his students to a love of poetry and to seize the day.High stakes with lots of money changing hands. Nicholas Cage is the 1880's champ Ned Hanlan back when rowing was as popular as football is in the US and soccer is in the rest of the world. Has a little rowing, a nice view of the Weeks Footbridge on the Charles and references to crew (as well as the annoying coxswain supposedly saying "stroke", but is also just a great schmaltzy movie with Jamie Lee Curtis. Made in the former Yugoslavia, a coming-of-age story of five close friends - four teenage boys and their female coxswain. For you purists, boat burning takes place only after eights, not after ad hoc coxless pairs grudge matches against Harvard.
Rob Lowe in a film that purports to show that you don't need to do maintenance on the boats, since you can fix your boat during a race and still win. Barbra Streisand, a political activist, and Robert Redford, in the military, meet several times starting in college and form an unlikely relationship which is disapproved of by each of their peers. It's been over thirty years since I've seen it, but I remember a rowing scene early in the movie inwhich the cox'n is calling out individual seat numbers and harassing the rowers the line that stayed with me was: "Seat two, you!" Soundtrack included "The Circle Game" (sung by Buffy Saint-Marie) and Neil Young's whine-rock classic, "Helpless." It was based on a book of the same name that was written by a Columbia University student who had joined the radical movement but was ambivalent about it. The Strawberry Statement - I believe was released in 1970 or 1971.A coxswain is paid off and one of the Cambridge/Oxford boats rams the other. The main character (Peter Sellers) sets out to show that everybody has a PRICE-if the money is great enough, anybody will do anything. Rowing (all 3 seconds of it which took all day) done by Union Boat Club- so there is rowing outside of Philly! The original movie with Steve McQueen/Faye Dunaway. For those rowers who think that life is just one big musical, there is a Gilbert and Sullivanesque version of Henley not to be missed. The stiffs then invite him into their rowing circle. Tommie Steele stars as a lower class bloke around the turn of the century who inherits a lot of money. Look hard for the sculler who has flipped. Ringo along the shore during the "This Boy" number, while a couple of scullers are off in the background. Arthur Lake, Penny Singleton, Janet Blair and Larry Parks star.
Funny situations don't stop coming as Blondie gets attention from the university's top athlete and Dagwood joins the rowing team and finds favor with a pretty coed. When Dagwood decides to enroll in college, Mr. Lionel Barrymore in a tale of the crass American who crosses the pond to save the day.