We have discussed lots of films over the years: The Touchables, the Seven Ages of Nakedness, the Cuckoo Patrol, the Night and the City, A Kid For Two Farthings, and others. I was looking for the main thread.
I've just discovered another and this one is Academy Award nominated. Lots of posters of Wimbledon Palais and Guildford and a wrestling bout in the middle of the picture.
Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment. 1966.
It's doing the rounds on Talking Pictures at the moment.
Just goes to underline the mainstream importance of wrestling in the mid-sixties that a psychological film would use wrestling as one of its backdrops.
I am rather chuffed with this find.
This is not merely our perhaps first international inclusion and in such a prestigious film as Chariots of Fire:
The colours of the typically French poster blend in perfectly with the setting.
On closer inspection we have our first and whopping ANACHRONISM. By over 40 years! Walter Bordes wasn't even born in 1924; and the midget wrestlers certainly weren't around at the time of those Paris Olympics.
It would also have been a very very early tag match.
I hope the people at the Academy Awards are seeing this. Such mangling and misappropriation of wrestling history warrants the rescindment of any Oscars that may have been awarded.