The Sporting Club

1971

Action / Comedy / Drama / Sport

IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 148 148

orgy time capsule wealthy destruction backwoods class warfare

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

Ralph Waite Photo
Ralph Waite as Olson
James Noble Photo
James Noble as Canon Pritchard
Logan Ramsey Photo
Logan Ramsey as Scott
William Roerick Photo
William Roerick as Fortesque
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954.79 MB
1280*692
English 2.0
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30 fps
1 hr 43 min
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1.73 GB
1920*1038
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
30 fps
1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

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.
Reviewed by mark.waltz 4 / 10

One of the most bizarre films of the '70s that I couldn't turn off.

Oh what a cast for this very bizarre drama that may have gone for a cult following but ended up not getting it. Nicolas Coster, seen on about every soap opera ever produced between the 1960's and '90s, and a guest on many prime time shows, co-stars with Robert Fields in this film. Coster has taken over an exclusive country inn where the very wealthy meet, and being broke besides to do something drastic about that. College chum Fields arrives and they create a very bizarre scheme to terrorize the guests.I recognized many of the guests which included Logan Ramsey and his wife Anne (long before someone tried to throw her off the train), "Guiding Light" patriarch William Roerick (who also had a successful stage career) and "Benson's" James Noble playing a priest. There's also a gay couple wearing matching pajamas in spite of their major difference in age. Jack Warden comes on later in the film as the new caretaker and really turns the country in upside down which results in some violent twists involving explosions and the male guest marching with rifles to confront the mayhem.One thing that isn't clear is what the point of all this was, and that is what weakens the film overall. Roerick gives and takes a lot of abuse, playing the most pretentious of the men, a far cry from his role of Henry Chamberlain, one of the most gentle wealthy businessman on daytime. The Ramseys are great together, with "Mama" appearing to be quite glamorous in her part. I can say that I enjoyed it more for the familiar players (including a young Linda Blair!), but as an exploration of the desire to destroy the old patriarchy (and basically create a new one), it falls short and ends up being somewhat disappointing. A misfire that I'm glad I didn't skip but couldn't sit through again.
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