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Name: Requiem For a Heavyweight
Released: 1962-10-16
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Stanley Adams

Requiem For a Heavyweight

NR
1h 25m
1962

89%

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Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, Requiem For A Heavyweight stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a prizefighter who eventually falls into the world of professional wrestling. Muhammad Ali (billed as Cassius Clay) has a small role as a fighter.

Director:

Ralph Nelson

Producer:

David Susskind

Writer:

Rod Serling

Cast:

Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Stanley Adams

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

89%

Critics Consensus: Requiem for a Heavyweight is a stirring character study of a battered boxer that may at times pummel its message yet finely retains cinematic métier and human nobility.

Reviews

Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Jane Corby

There is an appealingly human quality about this film that may well get to any adult audience, even to those who never had a glove laid on them or even saw a prize fight.

This film is an honest, compassionate film in which fear, meanness, and sadism compete with generosity, loyalty, and plain shining goodness.

[The performers] all lend an emotional quality to the action that quickens the pulse of the audience.

It's terse and unvarnished and carries a terrific impact.

February 14, 2023

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Philadelphia Daily News

Sandra Saunders

... A moving and compassionate study of a man struggling to maintain his personal dignity and integrity in a world that no longer has a place for him.

February 14, 2023

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