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Requiem For a Heavyweight (1962) is a hard-boiled melodrama of a boxer's forced retirement and his floundering for an occupation after 17 years in boxing. Nearly unrecognizable beneath a broken nose, scarred face and cauliflower ears, Anthony Quinn stars as the battered, hulking, pitiful Mountain Rivera.
Here, Mountain McClintock (Jack Palance) is badly beaten after a fight, and the doctor says no more. All of a sudden, Mountain’s manager Maish (Keenan Wynn) has a major problem. He’s broke, but he owes three grand to an unseen gangster named Mr. Nelson, and Mr. Nelson wants his money NOW. So Maish has got two weeks to come up with the cash ...
Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 drama film directed by Ralph Morgan and starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, and Julie Harris.. Luis "Mountain" Rivera (Quinn) is a washed-up heavyweight boxer. The film begins with Luis taking a brutal beatdown — at the hands of Cassius Clay himself — that ends in a seventh-round knockout. The doctor who examines Luis after the fight ...
Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money. Although he and his loyal trainer, Army, oppose the ...
Synopsis. Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, schemes to get the ex-boxer into a phony wrestling match to make some quick money.
26 de jul. de 2002 · Requiem for a Heavyweight. Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney. Six years after Jack Palance brilliantly essayed the character of Mountain Rivera on television’s “Playhouse 90,” Anthony Quinn took on the role of the battered boxer for this big-screen adaptation of Rod Serling’s Emmy-winning teleplay.
Film. Ko van Dijk krijgt boksles van bokskampioen Harry Bos voor zijn rol in "Requiem voor een zwaargewicht" (1959) Requiem for a Heavyweight is een Amerikaans televisiespel, geschreven door Rod Serling, dat in 1956 op de Amerikaanse televisie live werd gespeeld. Het werd in 1962 verfilmd.
