Robert Taylor
The idea had been floating around in Robert Taylor’s head for a while—the improbable, true story of a socially awkward 61-year-old farmer who beat professional athletes half his age in Australia’s 1983 ultramarathon.
Taylor, then an undergraduate studying screenwriting at California State University, Northridge, decided to develop the story as part of a class project. That was four years ago.
Taylor’s class project has been turned into a television movie, and last week millions of Australians turned on the television during primetime to watch “Cliffy,” the story of Cliff Young, who at age 61 won