04/02/2001
Overview
This made-for-TV bio-pic is about Marilyn Bell, a Canadian teenager who, in 1954, was the first person to swim across Lake Ontario. She won the Toronto Canadian National Exhibition prize after Florence Chadwick, a then-famous American swimmer who was widely expected to win, dropped out in the middle of the race. Half of this heart-warming movie is devoted to the 21 hour swim in which the 16-year old Bell is exhorted by her pushy coach Gus Ryder not to give up.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215835
Wikipedia: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4309893
Facebook: No data
Instagram: No data
X: No data