The Great White Hope PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 11, 2005
- Originally Released: 1970
- Label: 20th Century Fox
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | James Earl Jones | |
Performer: | Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Moses Gunn, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen & Robert Webber | |
Directed by | Martin Ritt | |
Edited by | William Reynolds | |
Screenwriting by | Howard Sackler | |
Art Direction by | Jack Martin Smith | |
Story by | Howard Sackler | |
Produced by | Lawrence Turman | |
Director of Photography: | Burnett Guffey |
Entertainment Reviews:
Jones' re-creation of his stage role is an eye-riveting experience. The towering rages and unrestrained joys of which his character was capable are portrayed larger than life.
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Variety
Rating: 3.5/4 --
The love story between Alexander and Jones is touchingly portrayed.
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TV Guide
One of those liberal, well-meaning, fervently uncontroversial works that pretend to tackle contemporary problems by finding analogies at a safe remove in history.
New York Times
Rating: 3/5 --
This heavyweight boxing fable... has a knockout performance by James Earl Jones but it only just gets by on points as drama and is undermined by an early form of political correctness.
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Radio Times
Rating: C+ --
The movie is too theatrical and every idea is spelled out for the audience, but the acting of James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander (both Oscar-nominated) is good.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Provocative but never challenging.
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Chicago Reader
Product Description:
Based on Howard Sackler's Broadway play about the life of flamboyant boxing great, Jack Johnson, THE GREAT WHITE HOPE stars James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson, a fictional counterpart for Johnson. Jefferson, the first-ever African-American heavyweight champion, fights racism, hostile fans, and aggressive promoters to become the top fighter in the world in the early 1900s. However, once at the top, Jefferson finds that he has provoked the anger of the government, labor unions, and the boxing racket itself because of his race, talent, and his romance with a white woman, Eleanor (Jane Alexander). Under investigation by the government, Jefferson travels the world fighting for a promoter whose main focus is to find a white fighter who can match Jefferson's prowess in the ring--that is the definition of "the great white hope" of the title. Bolstered by Mr. Jones's powerful performance, THE GREAT WHITE HOPE is a searing examination of prejudice in 20th century America. The film doesn't back down from some of the more complex and disturbing issues in the play, namely the psychological reasons for the white establishment's fear of Johnson. Revealing and entertaining, Ritt's film takes an unflinching look at racial politics in America.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 119,184
- UPC: 024543104667
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