This short film chronicles the quest to run a mile in under four minutes starting in the 1920s through the mid-1950s when the world record was first set and when it was first achieved on U.S... Read allThis short film chronicles the quest to run a mile in under four minutes starting in the 1920s through the mid-1950s when the world record was first set and when it was first achieved on U.S. soil.This short film chronicles the quest to run a mile in under four minutes starting in the 1920s through the mid-1950s when the world record was first set and when it was first achieved on U.S. soil.
Harry Wismer
- Self - Narrator
- (voice)
Paavo Nurmi
- Self
- (archive footage)
Fiorello LaGuardia
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Mayor LaGuardia)
Arne Andersson
- Self
- (archive footage)
Jules Ladoumègue
- Self
- (archive footage)
Bill Bonthron
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Lovelock
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Jack Lovelock)
Glenn Cunningham
- Self
- (archive footage)
Gene Venzke
- Self
- (archive footage)
Sidney Wooderson
- Self
- (archive footage)
Gunder Hägg
- Self
- (archive footage)
Roger Bannister
- Self
- (archive footage)
John Landy
- Self
- (archive footage)
Christopher Chataway
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Chris Chataway)
László Tábori
- Self
- (archive footage)
- (as Laszlo Tabori)
Ron Delaney
- Self
- (archive footage)
Joe Bailey
- Self
- (archive footage)
