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Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted as a 1962 feature film starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney.
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a rough gem, it's not the edgiest or most sophisticated film out there, but it's still a wonderful little tragedy. The characters are painted in few and gentle strokes, but every relationship is wholly convincing and the dialogues are affecting and moving. Photography and editing are flowing are tasteful.
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 ...
Here, Mountain McClintock (Jack Palance) is badly beaten after a fight, and the doctor says no more. All of a sudden, Mountain’s manager Maish (Keenan Wynn) has a major problem. He’s broke, but he owes three grand to an unseen gangster named Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson wants his money NOW. So Maish has got two weeks to come up with the cash ...
Film. Ko van Dijk krijgt boksles van bokskampioen Harry Bos voor zijn rol in "Requiem voor een zwaargewicht" (1959) Requiem for a Heavyweight is een Amerikaans televisiespel, geschreven door Rod Serling, dat in 1956 op de Amerikaanse televisie live werd gespeeld. Het werd in 1962 verfilmd.
I am shocked to learn that this film received zero Oscar nominations, especially considering some of the films that were nominated that year. It's an outstanding film, adapted from Rod Serling's teleplay of six years prior by Serling himself and starring Anthony Quinn as a boxer whose time has passed who gets an opportunity to improve himself but who gets dragged down by his manager into a ...
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted into the 1962 feature film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, and Julie Harris.
