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Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Syrupy schlock from perhaps the most sentimental of all Italian directors, a pointless update of King Vidor's '30s weepie about a former champion boxer's attempts to hang on to his doting son when his estranged wife reappears on the scene. An all too real and common dilemma treated in tediously glossy fashion.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
Producer: Dyson Lovell
Cast: Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder, Jack Warden, Arthur Hill, Strother Martin, Joan Blondell, Elisha Cook full cast
Duration: 122 mins
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