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A look at the 50-year career of Martin Maher who served as boxing instructor at West Point: The Harder They Fall: 1956 Film noir A former sportswriter (Humphrey Bogart) works for a mobster who fixes fights. Somebody Up There Likes Me: 1956 Biographical Two-time Oscar-winner based on life of Rocky Graziano, played by Paul Newman. The Square ...
Raging Bull is a 1980 American biographical sports drama film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Cathy Moriarty, Theresa Saldana, Frank Vincent, and Nicholas Colasanto in his final film role. The film is an adaptation of former middleweight boxing champion Jake LaMotta 's 1970 memoir Raging Bull: My Story.
The film enjoys a reputation as a classic and still receives nearly universal praise. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 92% approval rating based on 75 reviews, with an average rating of 8.4/10. The site's critics consensus states: "This story of a down-on-his-luck boxer is thoroughly predictable, but Sylvester Stallone ...
A. American boxing films (4 C, 242 P) Argentine boxing films (3 P) Australian boxing films (4 P)
Box office. $1,350,000 (US) [ 1] The Harder They Fall is a 1956 American boxing film noir directed by Mark Robson, produced and written by Philip Yordan, based on Budd Schulberg 's 1947 novel. It was Humphrey Bogart 's final film role. [ 2] It received an Oscar nomination for Best Cinematography, Black and White, for Burnett Guffey at the 29th ...
Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 American sports drama film directed, co-produced, scored by and starring Clint Eastwood from a screenplay written by Paul Haggis, based on stories from the 2000 collection Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole, the pen name of fight manager and cutman Jerry Boyd. It also stars Hilary Swank and Morgan ...
Boxing Helena is a 1993 American Avant-garde thriller film directed by Jennifer Lynch and starring Sherilyn Fenn, Julian Sands, and Bill Paxton. [5] [6] Before its release, the film's production was hampered by legal battles with Madonna and Kim Basinger, who both backed out of playing Helena. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in ...
Box office. $173.6 million [2] Creed is a 2015 American sports drama film directed by Ryan Coogler, who co-wrote the screenplay with Aaron Covington. It is the first spin-off of and is the seventh installment in the Rocky film series. It stars Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Tony Bellew, and Graham McTavish.