All-Time Sales Rank: 6565
| Overall Rating: 5 out of 5, including 1 review
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"… Sure To Touch The Spectator's Heart." -Time Magazine
Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the fight game.
After 17 years in the ring, it's the final bell for Mountain Rivera (Quinn). A fight doctor confirms one more punch for the washed-up heavyweight and he could become permanently disabled. Reluctantly, but with the support of his faithful trainer (Rooney) and a kindly employment counselor (Harris), Rivera tries to land a job outside the ring. But his calculating manager Maish (Gleason) has other plans for Rivera. With the mob closing in on him for payment of a huge gambling debt, Maish coerces Rivera into returning to the ring for a lucrative, yet humiliating, career in staged wrestling matches.
A heartbreaking lead performance by double Oscar® winner Quinn (Best Supporting Actor, Viva Zapata, 1952 and Lust for Life, 1956) and a triumphant big screen adaptation by writer Rod Serling and director Ralph Nelson of their Emmy-winning "Playhouse 90" television production, Requiem for a Heavyweight packs a devastating punch.
Boxing fans should watch for champs Muhammad Ali (billed as Cassius Clay) in the electrifying opening sequence, and Jack Dempsey in a nightclub scene.
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| Widescreen 1.85:1 B&W
Standard 1.33:1 B&W | | Audio: (more info) | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
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| Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Production Year: 1962
Release Date: 5/14/2002
Length: 86 mins
Rating: NR
Chapters: 28
| Packaging: Keep Case
Number of Discs: 1
Disc: SS-DL
Item Code: 08338
UPC Code: 043396083387
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Overall Rating: 5 out of 5, including 1 review
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A classic that should be in the AFI Top 100! - 5 out of 5 (5/15/2002)
It's about a fighter, brilliantly played by Anthony Quinn, a sympathetic counselor, and his manager, played by Jackie Gleason, owes money to the mob and wants him to work in wrestling. The screenplay is fantastic, a classic I still remember having to watch and write about in English Lit.
The revealing truths about human weaknesses and wasted lives.
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