CHAMPION (FULL SCREEN)

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Drama, Film-Noir
• Plot: Kirk Douglass tour de performance made him an overnight sensation and earned him his first Oscar® nomination for Champion, a brutal and uncompromising tale of a boxer whose fight to the top is unhampered by ethics or gratitude. A hero to his fans, his friends know him to be a selfish egomaniac who allows nothing to stand in this way… not even the syndicate. After winning a fight he was supposed to throw, the mob has him attacked. He only survives through the intervention of a woman who becomes his lover… and then just another pawn in his climb up the ladder. After alienating the people who helped him the most, he finally enters the ring to confront his biggest opponent… himself.
• Cast: Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Ruth Roman, Lola Albright, Luis Van Rooten, Harry Shannon, John Daheim, Ralph Sanford, Esther Howard, Bill Baldwin, Sam Balter, Polly Bergen, Don Brodie, Ralph Brooks, Sayre Dearing, Paul Dubov, Jimmie Dundee, Chuck Hamilton, Mike Lally, Hal March, George Meader, Ralph Montgomery, Forbes Murray, Jack Perry, Tim Ryan, Court Shepard, Charles Sherlock, Charles Sullivan, Mark Robson
• Director: Mark Robson
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: Artisan Home Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie