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Requiem for a Heavyweight
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Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956
Comedy
Drama
1h 13m
Playhouse 90 - Season: 1, Episode: 2 - All Episodes
A punch-drunk prizefighter (Jack Palance) is forced to face life outside the ring in Rod Serling's searing indictment of the professional boxing underworld. Costarring father and son Ed and Keenan Wynn, the former in his dramatic debut, and directed by Ralph Nelson, the Emmy Award-winning Requiem for a Heavyweight is a moving portrait of a would-be champion. (Criterion.com)
Directed by:
Ralph Nelson Ralph Nelson
Written by:
Rod Serling Rod Serling
Starring:
Keenan Wynn Keenan Wynn Jack Palance Jack Palance Kim Hunter Kim Hunter Ed Wynn Ed Wynn Stanley Adams Stanley Adams Ned Glass Ned Glass Max Baer Richard Joy
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Genres:
Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country:
USA
Language:
English
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Requiem for a Heavyweight

1956
Comedy
Drama
1h 13m
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pilgermannpilgermann
Rated 25 Oct 2014
90
94th
A great deal of cinematic beauty from a live TV broadcast of all things! Amazing, emotionally engaging stuff.
Rated 25 Oct 2014
doyler29doyler29
Rated 13 May 2020
80
68th
This is a beautiful production. Jack Palance is a beautiful, tender monster in this. Kim Hunter is wonderful. Father and son Ed and Keenan Wynn play off each other, Ed in his first dramatic role. I love this.
Rated 13 May 2020
iconogassediconogassed
Rated 13 Jul 2021
70
54th
Palance throws himself into it with an intensity and commitment let down by the broad characterization and an ending that makes it hard to credit the "indictment" of boxing. (For the theatrical remake, the ending would be changed about as much as an ending can be changed. It would be an improvement.) But even watching today, the live-ness provides an undeniable electricity, and gives an idea of what was lost when that beast James T. Aubrey cancelled all these shows for THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES.
Rated 13 Jul 2021
kasperlKasperL
Rated 29 Aug 2023
60
50th
I'm sure that I would have enjoyed this more if I hadn't already watched the theatrical remake. But that just wasn't how things went down.
Rated 29 Aug 2023

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