Feb 13th
The Harder They Fall*
US 1956. Columbia. 109m. bw
An unemployed sports writer agrees to promote an inadequate contender for the World Heavyweight Title.
Disappointing boxing melodrama ostensibly about the corruption of promoters, with Bogart (in his last film) acquitting himself well with the new generation of "Method" actors, but the athlete at the centre of the drama, alas, is just a little too mincey to convince even the most corrupt of managers that he could become a World Champ.
Written/Produced by: Philip Yordan, from the novel by Budd Schulberg.
Director: Mark Robson.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Jersey Joe Walcott, Edward Andrews, Harold J. Stone, Carlos Montalban, Nehemiah Persoff, Pat Comiskey, Joe Greb.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer.
Photography: Burnett Guffey.
The Harder They Fall*
US 1956. Columbia. 109m. bw
An unemployed sports writer agrees to promote an inadequate contender for the World Heavyweight Title.
Disappointing boxing melodrama ostensibly about the corruption of promoters, with Bogart (in his last film) acquitting himself well with the new generation of "Method" actors, but the athlete at the centre of the drama, alas, is just a little too mincey to convince even the most corrupt of managers that he could become a World Champ.
Written/Produced by: Philip Yordan, from the novel by Budd Schulberg.
Director: Mark Robson.
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane, Max Baer, Jersey Joe Walcott, Edward Andrews, Harold J. Stone, Carlos Montalban, Nehemiah Persoff, Pat Comiskey, Joe Greb.
Music: Hugo Friedhofer.
Photography: Burnett Guffey.
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