Champion (Blu-ray)
Fighting or loving, he was the... CHAMPION
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 23, 2013
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Olive
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell & Arthur Kennedy | |
| Performer: | Ruth Roman, Paul Stewart, Lola Albright, Luis Van Rooten, John Day & Harry Shannon | |
| Directed by | Mark Robson | |
| Edited by | Harry Gerstad | |
| Screenwriting by | Carl Foreman | |
| Composition by | Dimitri Tiomkin | |
| Produced by | Stanley Kramer | |
| Director of Photography: | Franz Planer |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1949 -
Best Film Editing: Harry Gerstad
Entertainment Reviews:
93%
74%
Douglas is so perfect in the role that the movie is never less than gripping.
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Film4
Rating: 3/5 --
Kirk Douglas does a good, aggressive job, with a slight inclination to over-eagerness at times, which might amuse an old fight fan.
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New York Times
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliant, searing, heartbreaking.
Movie Mom
Rating: 5/5 --
One of the best fight films ever, also one of Kirk's best
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 4/5 --
The contrasting black and white cinematography perfectly fits the dark mood. The fight sequences are excitingly and realistically staged.
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BBC.com
A tight, gripping drama worth more to the movie customer than many multi-million epics.
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Associated Press
Frank Planer's photography has much drama as the script as it begins to tell the story right under the titles and continues compelling on its course through the grim, relentless narrative.
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Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Film Editing.
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