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8 de nov. de 2017 · Requiem for a Heavyweight is a dour film, going with the dark and gritty world of prizefighting. There's a great hopelessness in it, a sense of despair, of people trapped with no way out of their misery. If not for some fine performances, it would be a film to avoid and forget. Luis 'Mountain' Rivera (Anthony Quinn) is facing the end of his ...
Running time: 85 MIN. With: Anthony Quinn Jackie Gleason Mickey Rooney Julie Harris Stanley Adams Cassius Clay. Rod Serling's poignant portrait of the sunset of a prizefighter has lost some of its ...
Synopsis. MOUNTAIN RIVERA, a prizefighter, has come to the end of his days. Never capturing the heavyweight title he dreamed of, he loses to young upstart, CASSIUS CLAY. After the fight, a DOCTOR tells Mountain's manager, MAISH RENNICK, that any further fights will lead to a detached retina and blindness. Montana is through.
Requiem for a Heavyweight: Directed by Alvin Rakoff. With Sean Connery, George Margo, Warren Mitchell, Jacqueline Hill. 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.
The thoughtful script is a grabber. It has a statement to make and a cast of committed, sincere performers, who give that statement body and voice. Keenan and Ed Wynn, Kim Hunter and most especially Jack Palance, who plays washed-up heavyweight, Harlan "Mountain" McClintock. Whenever he's on-screen the film becomes all the better.
Where to watch Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962) starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and directed by Ralph Nelson.
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 ...
