Tell me about your favorite boxing films

1. The Set-Up (--because I'm sentimental. This film was done in real time, is a film noir, and is as authentic as it gets in capturing what club fighting was in the 40s. The appearance of Jack Chase just clinches it for me)

2. Rocky

3. Raging Bull

 

I'm glad that a few people have mentioned The Set-Up; it had a pretty significant influence on lots of subsequent boxing films that followed over the years, Raging Bull probably being the most notable. I think that Scorsese himself has several times acknowledged it's importance in this regard. Great film in it's own right though. I'd forgotten that Jack Chase appeared in it too, nice moment of acknowledgement.

I'm going to go away and chew my own elbow if nobody else says what a great film Fat City is. Come on, say it. Please. SAY IT!!!! :twisted::fire
:bart Meh, may Curtis Cokes punch you all 4 times in the pancreas.

And I know it isn't strictly a boxing film, but Brando facing down Lee J. Cobb and his elves on the docks at the end of On The Waterfront makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck more than any great boxing film has ever done.

Not a great film or even a particularly good one, but I've always quite enjoyed Joe and Max, the TV adaptation of the Louis/Schmeling back in the early '00's.

 

React exactly the same, no matter how many times I see that, TR

 

Not the best trailer in the world, but have a peek at this folks if you haven't seen it.....


[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Zd4x_98WHI[/ame]

 

Has anybody here ever watched The Joe Louis story?

 

Just an immense film tbh, john. Brando, Steiger, Malden, Marie-Saint etc, their abilities are sort of self-evident with no explanation needed. But I'm convinced that Cobb is one of the greatest American actor's of all time, maybe even the greatest. He was just that good. Juror #3 in 12 Angry Men was amazing.

 

It was one of my challenges on the movie stills thread. http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=275616

It took a long, long time for someone to guess that...On a boxing forum. :-(

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=8744859#post8744859

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9546337#post9546337

 

It was an embarrassment -- an idealized low-budget paint-by-the-numbers quickie.

 

It was VERY cheap, BE. They were non-union flys.

 

It was well-intended -- serious -- but an interminable bore. Focused only on Barney's morphine addiction -- nothing at all 'bout his ring career.

 

Barney Ross has some shady background in Chi-town. Good buds with Jack Rubenstein, aka Jack Ruby.

But so was Richard Nixon. Young Congressman Nixon, had Jack Rubenstein on his staff in 1947. It gets curiouser and curiouser.

Ross refused to say a bad word about Ruby.
And I think most people would like ****** on my back, if nothing else than for historical reason.

Though a low bidget flick, it may have been the first to depict hard drug addiction, and even crimes committed to support this. And it also shows the only cure offered then. He had to go into "residence" at a VA hospital for some time.

But true, there is very little boxing shown in the movie. Shouldn't be a surprise as the title indicates what it is about.

 

"You ratted on us Terry".
I have a photo of Cobb and Brando slugging it out on the dock, just before Cobb screams for Galento and Mauriello to come and help him, truly great film.

 

I'm going to look out for this one, thanks for the preview.