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Genres:
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Drama /
Sport /
Music
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Director:
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Actors:
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Val Avery,
Jackie Gleason,
Madame Spivy,
Jack Dempsey,
Barney Ross,
Anthony Quinn,
Mickey Rooney,
Julie Harris,
Stanley Adams,
Herbie Faye
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)70.5
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Plot Summary:
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This big-guard accommodation of Unruly Serling's major television dramatics is in all directions an aging boxer whose controlling supervisor leads him to consider throwing fights instead of retiring. Packing a wallop, mostly as an in-depth character study, this stage production is packed with unaffected-life boxers and star power. Julie Harris is undaunted as Thanksgiving Miller, a stern yet gentle employment counsellor, who hopes to ease the tedious preponderancy's transformation. Anthony Quinn is huge in both vitality and stature as Mountain Rivera, and Jackie Gleason proves to be an regul... ar prospect looking for him as his head Maish Renick. Renick is both weak and plotting which adequately bolsters our sympathies on Quinn's mumbled giant fighter. Mickey Rooney tugs heartstrings as Army, Quinn's trainer, and has a exceptionally memorable consideration in a card-playing scene. Enormously of authenticity and atmosphere, with cameos by Muhammad Ali and Jack Dempsey, and supported with a great plan by means of Rod Serling, this is one of the most going boxing films ever made.
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Requiem For A Heavyweight
A boxing twin, based on an American live TV production written close Rod Serling, this stars Anthony Quinn as Mountain Rivera, an over-the-hill boxer. He has to continue fighting, risking changeless blindness, in quiet to pay on holiday debts to the Mafia run up by means of his manager (Jackie Gleason). His loving trainer is Mickey Rooney. In the dialect knoll (and on the slogan behaviour message front) this is a bloody, unrefined pompously-hitter of a movie — albeit with a less squashable focus — and Quinn's committed play makes a agreeable coppers from his usual Greek/Inuit/Mongolian offerings. He made the movie quickly, during a shutdown in the production of Lawrence of Arabia.
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