The Great White Hope
1970VOTE NOW
| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: October 16, 1970 |
Starring:
Beah Richards, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Joel Fluellen, Lou Gilbert, Marlene Warfield, R.G. Armstrong, Robert Webber
Summary:
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
Director Martin Ritt (Hud) keeps the movie powerful and tense until the ending, which is crudely manipulative. [22 Aug 1998, p.11]
This big-scale work, directed by Martin Ritt, is of solid craftsmanship but little style. James Earl Jones' Johnson is, however, intensely vital and larger-than-life. [10 Dec 1989, p.2]
Martin Ritt's big, noisy production clunks along like a disjointed play; it defeats Jones, and along the way it also inadvertently exposes the clobber-them-with-guilt tactics of the dramatist, Howard Sackler.
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