Word: championing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Champion, the movie based on Ring Lardner's story of a middleweight heel, brought sudden stardom to Actor...
Director Mark Robson, who made the picture for RKO shortly before rocketing into the limelight with Champion (TIME, April 11), imprinted it with several signs of his fresh style. For one thing, there is an intelligent use of sound. Small, natural noises-the clop of hooves and the rattle of stones under the wagon wheels-take on weight and value. Spots of unbroken silence have the quality of noonday sunlight on an empty plain. Other refreshing and honest touches: the homely treatment of four frontier chippies (including Gloria Grahame); the persuasively intimate feel of the western countryside; the sensitive cinematic...
...Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug; a ringside portrait with a punch (TIME, April...
Especially pointless is the sluggish little romance between Esther, a former swimming champion who has become a manufacturer of beach wear, and Ricardo Montalban, a South American polo player. Their love story produces only one good piece of entertainment: a lively little song called Baby, It's Cold Outside, which is already well established as a jukebox hit. Between the long, arid stretches of talk, Betty Garrett and Red Skelton supply some shorter sketches of acceptable slapstick. The rest of the show, including a razzle-dazzle water ballet at the end, lumbers along like an overdressed float...
...Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug, a portrait with a punch (TIME, April...