Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

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Feb 14, 2023. Fictional aging heavyweight Louis "Mountain" Rivera (Anthony Quinn) is felled by young Cassius Clay, the future Muhammad Ali, and finds his professional career over. His manipulative.

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

Requiem for a Heavyweight: Directed by Ralph Nelson. With Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris. Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.

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A version of this article appears in print on of the National edition with the headline: Screen: 'Requiem for a Heavyweight':Anthony Quinn Stars In Serling's Drama Ralph Nelson, Director, Makes.

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Purchase Requiem For a Heavyweight on digital and stream instantly or download offline. Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, Requiem For A Heavyweight stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a prizefighter who eventually falls into the world of professional wrestling. Muhammad Ali (billed as Cassius Clay) has a small role as a fighter.

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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.

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Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a prizefighter who eventually falls into theworld of professional wrestling. Muhammad Ali (billed as Cassius Clay) has a small role as a fighter.

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, from left, Mickey Rooney, Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, 1962 Stock

Requiem for a Heavyweight. Jump to. Edit. Summaries. Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali. Mountain Rivera, a punchy has-been managed by the unprincipled Maish, is mauled in a fight and forced to quit boxing..

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Requiem for a Heavyweight is a 1962 American film directed by Ralph Nelson based on the television play of the same name with Anthony Quinn in the role originated by Jack Palance, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney in the parts portrayed on television by Keenan Wynn and his father Ed Wynn, and social worker Grace Miller was portrayed by Julie Harris..

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About this movie. Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a prizefighter who eventually falls into the world of professional wrestling.

Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)

Requiem for a Heavyweight was adapted for the screen by Rod Serling, who originally wrote the script as a teleplay for the television show Playhouse 90. Anthony Quinn portrayed "Mountain" Rivera, a slow-witted but kindhearted boxer who is well beyond his prime but is still used and manipulated by his manager (played by Jackie Gleason).

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, from left, Julie Harris, Anthony Quinn, 1962 Stock Photo Alamy

"Requiem for a Heavyweight" is a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956. Six years later, it was adapted into the 1962 feature film of the same name starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, and Julie Harris.. The teleplay won a Peabody Award, the first given to an individual script in television, and helped.

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Adapted from Rod Sterling's teleplay, REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris. It tells the story of a.

Requiem for a Heavyweight

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REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT, from left, Anthony Quinn, Julie Harris, 1962 Stock Photo Alamy

Requiem For A Heavyweight. Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish.

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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.

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ATGRADIO movie recommendation night, 1962's Requiem For a Heavyweight, considered by many to be the greatest boxing film ever made.