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Director: George Bowers
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From Time Out Film Guide
With great predecessors like The Set-Up, Fat City and Raging Bull, it's hard to see how this travesty (rather than remake) of the Rossen/Polonsky original could be so agonisingly awful. Sketchily skipping through the predictable vacillations of its boxer-hero's career, the film's plastic performances, saccharine sentiments, inept fight scenes, and sexist fantasy all vie for the honour of pummelling the audience into mindless shock. Garbage.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: George Bowers
Producer: Menahem Golan, Yoram Globus
Cast: Leon Isaac Kennedy, Jayne Kennedy, Muhammad Ali, Michael Gazzo, Perry Lang, Kim Hamilton, Gilbert Lewis full cast
Duration: 122 mins
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