BOXING FILMS, MOBSTERS, DAMES! VOLUME 1: HOW KIRK DOUGLAS AND ROBERT RYAN PUNCHED THEIR WAY TO STARDOM
Book Details
Author(s)Wiliam Hare
ISBN / ASINB00XUMVAOU
ISBN-13978B00XUMVAO2
Sales Rank185,523
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This is the first volume of a work comprehensive in scope and as real as headlines plucked from a newspaper or a story line from a television or radio news account. This series reveals the correlation between professional boxing and the influence of organized crime to control it. This conflict supplies the opportunity for talented filmmakers to provide solid entertainment vehicles to entertain while they inform.
Kirk Douglas and John Garfield play young men scarred by the Great Depression who use their robust physiques and potent punching power to make money as professional boxers. Along the way they encounter the grasping tentacles of mob bosses and two kinds of women, the protective, loving kind along with the opportunistic, gold digging, good time girls. Robert Ryan, on the other hand, is a battle scarred veteran whose loving wife, Audrey Totter, fears for his life as he seeks to extract the last bit of energy and skill before leaving the game with prideful dignity. Humphrey Bogart, in his final role, is a veteran boxing publicist appalled by the usury and amorality of promoter Rod Steiger. The final film in Volume One involves two boxers heading in opposite directions. Young boxer Jeff Bridges has a loving young wife in Candy Clark and a newly born child as he seeks to work his way up boxing's competitive ladder. Stacy Keach, on the other hand, dreams of the old days and his glamorous blonde ex-wife while plunging into an alcoholic morass with drinking companion Susan Tyrrell.
These ready made dramatic situations coupled with teamwork from talented participants at all levels provided film noir masterpieces in each instance. In chronological order, as discussed above, they are CHAMPION, BODY AND SOUL, THE HARDER THEY FALL and FAT CITY.
Kirk Douglas and John Garfield play young men scarred by the Great Depression who use their robust physiques and potent punching power to make money as professional boxers. Along the way they encounter the grasping tentacles of mob bosses and two kinds of women, the protective, loving kind along with the opportunistic, gold digging, good time girls. Robert Ryan, on the other hand, is a battle scarred veteran whose loving wife, Audrey Totter, fears for his life as he seeks to extract the last bit of energy and skill before leaving the game with prideful dignity. Humphrey Bogart, in his final role, is a veteran boxing publicist appalled by the usury and amorality of promoter Rod Steiger. The final film in Volume One involves two boxers heading in opposite directions. Young boxer Jeff Bridges has a loving young wife in Candy Clark and a newly born child as he seeks to work his way up boxing's competitive ladder. Stacy Keach, on the other hand, dreams of the old days and his glamorous blonde ex-wife while plunging into an alcoholic morass with drinking companion Susan Tyrrell.
These ready made dramatic situations coupled with teamwork from talented participants at all levels provided film noir masterpieces in each instance. In chronological order, as discussed above, they are CHAMPION, BODY AND SOUL, THE HARDER THEY FALL and FAT CITY.
