Peter Gent

Movies

Sports on the Silver Screen
Self (archive footage)
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.
North Dallas Forty
Screenplay
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.
North Dallas Forty
Novel
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional football player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s.