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26 de jul. de 2002 · Requiem for a Heavyweight. Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney. Six years after Jack Palance brilliantly essayed the character of Mountain Rivera on television’s “Playhouse 90,” Anthony Quinn took on the role of the battered boxer for this big-screen adaptation of Rod Serling’s Emmy-winning teleplay.
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is exploited by his manager, despite the efforts of a compassionate young woman who tries to help him recover his self-respect.
Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962) is a hard-boiled melodrama of a boxer's forced retirement and his floundering for an occupation after 17 years in boxing. Nearly unrecognizable beneath a broken nose, scarred face and cauliflower ears, Anthony Quinn stars as the battered, hulking, pitiful Mountain Rivera.
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 drama film directed by Ralph Morgan and starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, and Julie Harris.. Luis "Mountain" Rivera (Quinn) is a washed-up heavyweight boxer. The film begins with Luis taking a brutal beatdown — at the hands of Cassius Clay himself — that ends in a seventh-round knockout. The doctor who examines Luis after the fight ...
Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the ...
Synopsis. Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money.
Réquiem por un campeón es una película dirigida por Ralph Nelson con Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris .... Año: 1962. Título original: Requiem for a Heavyweight. Sinopsis: La carrera de Louis Rivera como boxeador llega a su fin tras una derrota ante el joven Cassius Clay. Ahora debe enfrentar el reto de encontrar su nuevo lugar en la sociedad.
