Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) with Anthony Quinn as washed up boxer "Mountain" Rivera Jackie Gleason as his manager Maish Rennick and Mickey Rooney as his trainer "Army". well acted drama by all involved. I personally think Gleason should have had a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for Maish.
I think it is one of the BEST acted sports dramas of all time. check out a young Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay and before he beat Sonny Liston) in the opening fight sequence. also cameos by boxers Jack Dempsey at his nightclub with Mountain and Maish and Barney Ross, Gus Lesnevich, Rory Calhoun and Willie Pep in the bar scene with Mountain and Grace Miller (played by Julie Harris)
it plays on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday August 13th @ 9:15 pm pacific time. definite
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Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) with Anthony Quinn as washed up boxer "Mountain" Rivera Jackie Gleason as his manager Maish Rennick and Mickey Rooney as his trainer "Army". well acted drama by all involved. I personally think Gleason should have had a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for Maish.
I think it is one of the BEST acted sports dramas of all time. check out a young Muhammad Ali (then known as Cassius Clay and before he beat Sonny Liston) in the opening fight sequence. also cameos by boxers Jack Dempsey at his nightclub with Mountain and Maish and Barney Ross, Gus Lesnevich, Rory Calhoun and Willie Pep in the bar scene with Mountain and Grace Miller (played by Julie Harris)
it plays on Turner Classic Movies Tuesday August 13th @ 9:15 pm pacific time. definite
Mickey Rooney always under rated in my opinion. I easily thought this was Gleasons best role. The "Hustler" was Newman's movie but he got to be a little more out front and evil in this one. He impressed me in this role. Very powerful. And at the end you feel a little sorry for him after "Army" finally takes a stand with Mountain. I"m glad you mentioned that scene in the bar because the guy I remember most was Willie Pep. He was smiling and probably only had 1 line but that face and voice still stick with me. That was a fighter!
The decay of boxing. Once the most popular sport and now ...
Link, Do you remember Vito (sp.) Antefurmo fighting the great Marvin Hagler or this champ named "Indian Red Lopez" who always won in the late rounds? It goes on.I'm sorry I can't remember, oh yes, Chuvalo! Lot's of great fighters in the 60's. person Tiger and Nino Benvenuti. A local guy for me named Curtis Cokes. He won and then defended @ welter twice. Oh well.
Good movie and it showed that seamy side of pro fighting better than any movie I know of. Mountain was afflicted with brain damage and "Red Lopez" was in a nursing home last I heard( dead I think) and Jerry Quarry is in a home (dead I think) and so many others I can't remember right now.
I bet you liked Boxing in the 60's to 70's. Who am I missing?
GL, Doc
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Mickey Rooney always under rated in my opinion. I easily thought this was Gleasons best role. The "Hustler" was Newman's movie but he got to be a little more out front and evil in this one. He impressed me in this role. Very powerful. And at the end you feel a little sorry for him after "Army" finally takes a stand with Mountain. I"m glad you mentioned that scene in the bar because the guy I remember most was Willie Pep. He was smiling and probably only had 1 line but that face and voice still stick with me. That was a fighter!
The decay of boxing. Once the most popular sport and now ...
Link, Do you remember Vito (sp.) Antefurmo fighting the great Marvin Hagler or this champ named "Indian Red Lopez" who always won in the late rounds? It goes on.I'm sorry I can't remember, oh yes, Chuvalo! Lot's of great fighters in the 60's. person Tiger and Nino Benvenuti. A local guy for me named Curtis Cokes. He won and then defended @ welter twice. Oh well.
Good movie and it showed that seamy side of pro fighting better than any movie I know of. Mountain was afflicted with brain damage and "Red Lopez" was in a nursing home last I heard( dead I think) and Jerry Quarry is in a home (dead I think) and so many others I can't remember right now.
I bet you liked Boxing in the 60's to 70's. Who am I missing?
I bet you liked Boxing in the 60's to 70's. Who am I missing?
was never a big boxing fan when I was a kid because it was totally "mobbed up" and a lot of it was so obviously fixed.
another excellent movie about that era in boxing is Humphrey Bogart's last film before his death in 1957 The Harder They Fall (1956). excellent cast including Bogie, Rod Steiger and Nehemiah Persoff. Jersey Joe Walcott plays the "stiff" of a fighter Toro Moreno's (Mike Lane) trainer George and Max Baer plays heavyweight champ Buddy Brannen.
it's a thinly-veiled shot at the "career" of 1930's Italian boxer Primo Carnera who, like Toro in the movie, was a giant BUT couldn't give or take a punch. in fact in 1941 during WWII, Mussolini hand picked Carnera to fight a 6' 3" Zulu POW named Kay Masaki " "to prove the inferiority of ne-gro race". Even though Masaki had no boxing experience, he went on to knock Carnera unconscious with one punch.
fantastic "under the radar" Bogie movie that plays on Turner Classic Movies about any time they have a Bogie marathon
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I bet you liked Boxing in the 60's to 70's. Who am I missing?
was never a big boxing fan when I was a kid because it was totally "mobbed up" and a lot of it was so obviously fixed.
another excellent movie about that era in boxing is Humphrey Bogart's last film before his death in 1957 The Harder They Fall (1956). excellent cast including Bogie, Rod Steiger and Nehemiah Persoff. Jersey Joe Walcott plays the "stiff" of a fighter Toro Moreno's (Mike Lane) trainer George and Max Baer plays heavyweight champ Buddy Brannen.
it's a thinly-veiled shot at the "career" of 1930's Italian boxer Primo Carnera who, like Toro in the movie, was a giant BUT couldn't give or take a punch. in fact in 1941 during WWII, Mussolini hand picked Carnera to fight a 6' 3" Zulu POW named Kay Masaki " "to prove the inferiority of ne-gro race". Even though Masaki had no boxing experience, he went on to knock Carnera unconscious with one punch.
fantastic "under the radar" Bogie movie that plays on Turner Classic Movies about any time they have a Bogie marathon
Lots of matches were fixed for sure but many were great fights. I hope Benny Parent wasn't fixing it when Emile Griffith killed him or that Korean fighter was fixing it when he beat the crap out of Ray Mancini for 10 rds. and then Mancini comes back and kills him. Anyway, boxing is dead, too.
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Lots of matches were fixed for sure but many were great fights. I hope Benny Parent wasn't fixing it when Emile Griffith killed him or that Korean fighter was fixing it when he beat the crap out of Ray Mancini for 10 rds. and then Mancini comes back and kills him. Anyway, boxing is dead, too.
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