The Sporting Club

1971

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 160 160

orgy time capsule wealthy destruction backwoods class warfare

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Plot summary

The wealthy members of an exclusive backwoods retreat face an existential threat from both a disgruntled former manager as well as a subversive, anarchistic current member.

Director

Larry Peerce Photo
Larry Peerce

Top cast

James Noble Photo
James Noble as Canon Pritchard
Logan Ramsey Photo
Logan Ramsey as Scott
William Roerick Photo
William Roerick as Fortesque
Linda Blair Photo
Linda Blair as Barby
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954.79 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
R
30 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.73 GB
1920*1038
English 2.0
R
30 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds ...

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by adorablepanic 4 / 10

THE SPORTING CLUB (1971) - Businessman James Quinn

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. All, that is, except for Vernur Stanton (Robert Fields), a simmering provocateur and anarchist whose favorite pastime is engaging in Alexander Hamilton/Aaron Burr-style gun duels. When Earl Olive (Jack Warden), the Club's new manager, is injured in one of these wax-bullet showdowns, the perpetually stoned Olive - with assistance from his rowdy biker buddies - declares literal class warfare on the Club and its members. Since its satiric concerns revolve around issues which are so prevalent in American politics today - namely hyper-partisanship and the privileged versus the proletariat - you would think that this would resonate more powerfully today than when initially released by a clueless AVCO Embassy (who actually promoted this in some markets as a MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932)-style human-hunting tale). Unfortunately, the story starts to gradually lose focus; the approach becomes heavy-handed and obvious; and interest starts to wane before the big orgy finale. (Yes, you read that right.) With an interesting, folksy score by Michael Small; a source novel by Thomas McGuane; and a cast full of fine character players who would become familiar faces on television over the next decade, this is one instance where the whole is quite a bit less than the sum of its parts.
Reviewed by lbworshiper

Great film, Blair plays Barby, one of her first official role

An obnoxious, bloody, exploitative attempt at social relevancy which sees a group of rich folk traveling to a getaway in northern Michigan. Here all the sick decadence of the group surfaces in the space of a weekend. Orgies, killings, and other gross happenings are paraded before the camera.Linda Blair plays the character Barby here, she is only a child but she got the eyes of the an angel and the voice of a goddess. She play the party very well. Nobody would know that this little child will have the part in one legendary horror film named The Exorcist after this film.
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