Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Note: this print runs 85 minutes against a recorded 100 minutes. It is the best copy we have found; we keep looking for a complete print.
With Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Adams, Val Avery, Jackie Gleason, Jack Dempsey, Muhammad Ali
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance and Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn. Social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris. Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr., appears as Quinn's opponent in a boxing match at the beginning of the movie.
Synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA. Streaming from YouTube.
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