LEFT: Italian poster for Women in Love, from here.It took 3 (three!) of you astute commenters to get through to me that is it Kurt, not Ken, Russell in the sports movie Miracle.
Silly me! Hockey wasn't Ken's scene.
Wrestling was.
For my penance, I will post a few pix of the famous nude wrestling scene between Oliver Reed and Alan Bates in Ken Russell's 1969 adaptation of D. H. Lawrence's Women in Love,
a movie that galvanized me when I was fifteen, but which now I find too, too squirm-making
...all that anguished swanning about in wheat fields...
Still, the boys do look nice in the firelight, don't they?
