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Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner story; with some of the fastest boxing scenes ever screened (TIME, April...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner short story; with some of the fastest and most realistic boxing scenes ever screened (TIME April...
Champion (Screen Plays, Inc.; United Artists) is a full-length portrait of a middleweight heel. Based on a hard-bitten short story by the late Ring Lardner, it is a brilliant example of the kind of punch a mall studio can pack, if it has an intelligent script and a smart director. To get by the Johnston Office, Scripter "Carl Foreman made his hero, Midge Kelly Kirk Douglas), a shade gentler than Lardner's original. The movie Midge, for instance, does not paste his dear old mother in the jaw. Otherwise he is just about as unlovely a piece...
Others who backed the winner were Allison Danzig, New York Times; Dave Egan, Boston Record; John Lardner, Newsweek; Vern Miller, Boston Globe; Arthur Sampson, Boston Herald; Arthur Siegel, Boston Traveler; and Frank Waldman, Christian Science Monitor...
...editor would have made a big difference. The dialogue in places is poor, and no good editor would let Mr. Rinchart write instead of a simple "he said," such things as he started, he snarled, she snapped, she giggled, said the man evenly, and said the woman triumphantly. Ring Lardner once wrote a satirical story in which every character always said things with a lordly snort, or with an easy sneer. Mr. Rinchart should read that story...