Word: prizefights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ring (King Bros.; United Artists) is a simple, straight-forward story of racial discrimination with a harsh setting: a Los Angeles prizefight ring. A young Mexican-American with a chip on his shoulder becomes a boxer "because it pays to be somebody." He turns professional, is badly beaten in the ring, and decides to quit boxing because he comes to realize that there are better ways to fight for respect from the "Anglos...
...team; he munches steadily ceilingward on a string of confetti that gets snarled in his spaghetti; he tries repeatedly to light his cigar but succeeds only in lighting the cigar that the millionaire is waving airily before his face. In another sequence, beautifully timed and sustained, he turns a prizefight into an uproarious ballet in which he and his murderous opponent dance briskly around a dancing referee...
...heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...
...publishers have mercifully excluded their author's dutiful little odes to George VI, Franklin Roosevelt, Princess Elizabeth and young Prince Charles of Edinburgh. The 24 poems that make up the volume are echoes of a sturdier Masefield who can still spin a tale of a country prizefight, drop a tear for the rifled tomb of an old king and enjoy the sense of friendly ghosts in Hilcote Manor. They are only echoes of the Masefield of Reynard the Fox, Enslaved and Dauber, but if they are unlikely to win the poet new admirers, they will still serve to keep...
Champion. A prizefight film that made reputations for Producer Stanley Kramer, Director Mark Robson and Actor Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...