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A promoter (Elliott Gould) pits a man against a boxing kangaroo. Movie Movie: 1978 Comedy Spoof of old boxing films, with palooka Harry Hamlin managed by George C. Scott. The Champ: 1979 Drama Remake of '30s melodrama about a child who worships a has-been boxer . The Main Event: 1979 Comedy
A. American boxing films (4 C, 242 P) Argentine boxing films (3 P) Australian boxing films (4 P)
Hard Times [a] is a 1975 action drama sport film marking the directorial debut of Walter Hill.It stars Charles Bronson as Chaney, a mysterious drifter freighthopping through Louisiana during the Great Depression, who proves indomitable in illegal bare-knuckled boxing matches after forming a partnership with the garrulous hustler Speed, played by James Coburn.
Fat City (film) Fat City. (film) Fat City is a 1972 American sports drama film directed and produced by John Huston, and adapted by Leonard Gardner from his 1969 novel of the same title. It stars Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, and Candy Clark in her film debut. The plot follows a former champion boxer (Keach) who begins to develop a ...
Real Steel is a 2011 American science fiction sports film starring Hugh Jackman and Dakota Goyo and co-produced and directed by Shawn Levy for DreamWorks Pictures.The film is based on the short story "Steel", written by Richard Matheson, which was originally published in the May 1956 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and later adapted into a 1963 Twilight Zone episode.
Gladiator is a 1992 American sports drama film directed by Rowdy Herrington, and starring Cuba Gooding Jr., James Marshall, Brian Dennehy, and Robert Loggia. The film tells the story of two teenagers trapped in the world of illegal underground boxing. One is fighting to pay off gambling debts accumulated by his father.
The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan [1] and Audrey Totter. [2] [3] The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March. The Set-Up was the last film Wise made for RKO, and he named it his favorite of the pictures he directed ...
Champion (1949 film) Chuck (film) Cinderella Man. City for Conquest. Come Out Fighting (1945 film) Conflict (1936 film) The Contender (1944 film) Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight.