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Bookmark this pageJoe Louis – For All Time (1984)
Director: Peter Tatum
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From Time Out Film Guide
Why does boxing so consistently make for good movies? Maybe it's because the subject provides action and lurid out-of-ring lives galore, maybe because boxers always seem to be such sad figures, reliant on powerful punches for their brief period of glory and then often doomed to years of neglect and poverty. Even with as popular and long-reigning a pugilist as Louis, this element of despair is present, and along with the marvellous archive footage on view, gives this documentary its compulsive and touching quality. The only complaints, in fact, lie surprisingly with the commentary written by Budd Schulberg; not only does it never question the values of physical violence as sport, but it frequently degenerates into absurdly purple bombast.Author: GA
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- JDV said...
- Posted on Apr 29 2010 02:34 I'm not sure why the video had to touch upon the question of values for people who have always been compelled with watching men fight. The film, which was brilliantly written by the late great Schulberg and in my opinion did a much better job than HBO of Louis' significance to the 20th century. You couldn't invent a character and fighting machine like Joe Louis. This movie shows you why.
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Cast & crew
Director: Peter Tatum
Producer: Jack Healy, Jim Jacobs, William Cayton, Peter Tatum
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 90 mins
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