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| Columbia Pictures | Release Date: July 26, 1972 |
Starring:
Art Aragon, Billy Walker, Candy Clark, Curtis Cokes, Jeff Bridges, Nicholas Colasanto, Sixto Rodriguez, Stacy Keach, Susan Tyrrell, Wayne Mahan
Summary:
Two men, working as professional boxers, come to blows when their careers each begin to take opposite momentum.
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From the script and novel of Leonard Gardner, this insider's portrait of the real world of the ring is a great tragicomedy: The bitterly funny, pugnacious banter between young alcoholic Oma (Susan Tyrrell) and Tully provides the humor; the lives of the fighters, whose hopes reach only to the next day, are its tragedy. [01 Apr 1988, p.29]
It’s one of those wonderfully depressing 1970s films that perfectly captures the era’s malaise. [29 Apr 2016, p.R19]
The film is beautifully acted and directed around the edges, but it also suffers from a tragic tone that has a blurring, antiquing effect. You watch all these losers losing, and you don't know why they're losing or why you're watching them.
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