Word: zale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Producer Ivan Tors hovered weightlessly just out of camera range; fluttering near by were a director, a movie cameraman and a lighting expert. Tors's pretty secretary, Zale Parry, glided about the group, taking notes on a slate. The movie camera, encased in a weightless "blimp," focused on the desperate struggle of Actor Lloyd Bridges as he grappled with a villain who might have come from Mars...
...instructor shows him how to "make hate work for him." In the prize ring, Graziano remains an undisciplined, roughhouse fighter, but now society applauds instead of imprisoning him. The habit of trouble is not broken. He misses scheduled bouts, tangles with gamblers and boxing commissions. Before he meets Tony Zale for the championship, newspapers break the story that Rocky had been dishonorably discharged from the Army for belting an officer...
...film suggests that the headlines were enough to make Rocky think seriously of making a deal with the crooked gamblers, only to be dissuaded by a pep talk from his neighborhood candy-store proprietor and by a fortuitous reconciliation with his father. Somebody ends with Rocky knocking out Zale in a bloody six rounds, but neglects to mention his subsequent run-ins with various boxing commissions or his recent triumphs as a high-paid TV star on NBC's Martha Raye Show, where he plays Martha's lowbrowed but highhearted suitor...
...face looking like a leftover hamburger. Prosecutors badgered him, accused him of covering up bribe offers. Among his managers was Killer Eddie Coco. But Rocky won most of his bouts. In the ring the old street fighter came back. One hot July night in 1947, he knocked out Tony Zale in a celebrated pier-six brawl and won the middleweight championship of the world...
Next year Zale took the title back in another Donnybrook. In and out of trouble with boxing's bigwigs, Rocky managed to keep himself in contention until 1952. Then, in Chicago, Sugar Ray Robinson knocked him out, and convinced him that he was through. But the man who finally turned his back on the ring was no longer the wise guttersnipe, the terror of Tenth Street. He had calmed down enough to become a TV comedian...