Requiem for a Heavyweight

Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 onOctober 1956. Six years later, it was adapted as a 1962 feature film starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney.

Jack Palance portrays Harlan Mountain McClintock, a oncepromising but now washedup boxer who faces the end of his career after he is savagely defeated by a younger boxer. Keenan Wynn portrays McClintocks manager Maish Keenans father Ed plays McClintocks cut man, Army.McClintock is suffering from Dementia pugilistica or punch drunk syndromebrain damage caused by his career. A fight doctor refuses to certify McClintock for further boxing, saying that another rough match could blind or even kill him. Boxing is all McClintock has ever known, and hes both terrified of trying something new, and intensely loyal to Maish, who has nurtured him from his youth. Maish has troubles of his own, however he owes money to the Mafia and tried to raise funds by betting that McClintock would be knocked out early instead, by gamely and bravely taking a beating and refusing to go down, McClintock cost Maish a fortune. ........

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