Basque Sports

Name: Basque Sports
Genre: Documentary, Short, Sport
Duration: 8 min
Rating: 5.9
Cast: Harry Wismer

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5.9/10

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An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and ro... Read allAn RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.An RKO-Pathe Sportscope focusing on sports played by Basques living along the Spain-France border in the western Pyrenees and the Bay of Biscay coast. Pelota, jai alai, wood chopping, and rowing as well as traditional dances are featured.

Director
- Van Campen Heilner
Stars
- Harry Wismer

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

YOUR RATING

Director
- Van Campen Heilner
Stars
- Harry Wismer

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Harry Wismer

Self - Narrator
(voice)

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Trivia
This is one of several short subjects, already in the can and slated for release by RKO Radio Pictures as part of their Sportscopes 1956-1957 season, but that no theatrical distribution at the time due to the demise of RKO. In 1994, they became part of the TCM library and, for the past 30+ years, have seen the light of day through occasional airings on cable television.

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[first lines]
Narrator: The land of the bouncing Basques - sportsmen extraordinary of Europe. They are a different people, living in the Pyrenees Mountains, partly in southern France, partly in northern Spain.