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Posts Tagged "boxing"
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The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]
The Champ ** (1979, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder) – Classic Movie Review 8639
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1979 love-triangle boxing movie tearjerker The Champ is a soggy remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper weepie The Champ, hopelessly out of its time five decades later, with Jon Voight out […]
The Happiest Millionaire *** (1967, Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, John Davidson, Gladys Cooper, Lesley Ann Warren, Geraldine Page, Hermione Baddeley) – Classic Movie Review 8532
Director Norman Tokar’s 1967 The Happiest Millionaire is the last live-action film supervised personally as producer by Walt Disney (uncredited), though Bill Anderson is credited producer. It is a large-scale musical, with a modern-day Romeo […]
Let’s Do It Again *** (1975, Sidney Poitier, Bill Cosby, Calvin Lockhart, Jimmie Walker, John Amos, Ossie Davis) – Classic Movie Review 7906
The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]
They Made Me a Criminal *** (1939, John Garfield, Claude Rains, May Robson, Gloria Dickson, The Dead End Kids) – Classic Movie Review 7859
Warner Bros put their big star John Garfield in the 1939 drama They Made Me a Criminal, a remake of 1933’s The Life of Jimmy Dolan, as Johnnie, a boxer on the run from the […]
Rocky V ** (1990, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Tommy Morrison) – Classic Movie Review 7830
Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young and Burgess Meredith team up with original 1976 Rocky director John G Avildsen for the 1990 boxing movie sequel Rocky V, the final episode of the original run of […]
Rocky IV *** (1985, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Brigitte Nielsen, Tony Burton) – Classic Movie Review 7827
Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]