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These films, influenced by one of Anderson ' heroes, the French filmmaker Jean Vigo, and made in the tradition of the British documentaries of Humphrey Jennings, foreshadowed much of the social realism of British cinema that emerged in the next decade, with Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ( 1960 ), Richardson's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) and Anderson's own This Sporting Life ( 1963 ), produced by Reisz.

Anderson's film met with mixed reviews at the time, and was not a commercial success.