Best boxing movie ever

Not exactly, T. But the original John Garfield, a great actor who died far too young, and if I'm not mistaken was a boyhood hero to our JG did.

Heard a story once of his moxie. When doing a movie with a famous Hollywood actress in his early years (coulda been Greer Garson), who graciously paid him a visit in his dressing room to welcome him onto the set the first day of shooting. Greer was quite the polite, mannered lady I'm told, even famously so, but for the up and coming, still rough around the edges New York kid Garfield, it was all a bit too Park Avenue, and so he said to her, "Ok Greer, let's cut the bull****. I wanna **** you."

 

Ali , Will Smith was brilliant

 

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Cinderella Man
Gentleman jim
Dempsey
Marciano

 

One don't know about one single movie, but a very good one was
THE SET UP with Robert Ryan. Very gritty and realistic and Ryan was superb in the boxing scenes--he was a former NCAA boxing champion.

 

Raging Bull

 

Good pick! Good flick! Errol Flynn was great as Gentleman Jim Corbett, the San Franciso flashy dan who outboxed an aging John L. Sullivan, played by equally great Ward Bond. Flynn was a colorful character, as I presume was Jim Corbett, and actually looked pretty convincing as a dancing, popping boxer.

 

There''s an obvious and pretty much consensus answer to this one.


Just as an aside though, I wonder what "The Fighter", a biopic on Micky Ward, will turn out to be like...

I really hope Darren Aronofsky follows through with it because quite frankly, he's one of the few 'Holywood' directors whose films I can stomach. I really liked his previous films like "Pi", "Requiem for a Dream" and "The Fountain", so I'm hoping the "The Fighter" is a great film. It's supposed to star Mark Wahlberg and Brad Pitt, so the acting shouldn't be a problem.

P.S. I'm another that didn't really like Million Dollar Baby. Massively overrated film.

 

"Raging Bull" without a doubt.

I wouldn't call it a great movie and the boxing was secondary in the plot, but I was very impressed with the boxing scenes in "The Boxer". Daniel Day Lewis definitely worked hard to learn how to box and the fights were closer to the real thing than to "Rocky".

 

whoever said Gladiator hit the nail on the head. Amazing movie, amazing soundtrack. james marshall and cuba gooding were brilliant

 

paul newman "somebody up there likes me"

 

The quiet man with john wayne,had a pretty awesome flash back to one of his fights,the guys who made raging bull,said they got a lot of inspiration from it as it was an early example of what they did with the fights in raging bull,that of being in the ring

 

"Requiem for a Heavyweight" has to be up there, an often forgotten flick. Maybe not the best but certainly a good watch.

Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney. A reality of the fight game as it was. Written by Rod Serling of Twilight zone.

 

Have to agree with you on "Requiem," bd. Can you think of all the real pros that made an appearance in the film?

 

I can come up with only 2, though I know more were in it.

I believe Maxie Rosenblume was in the bar sceen, and others I can't say who for sure though. Also I know Ali was is in it, I believe in the beginning.

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