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1947 |
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SPORTS
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104 |
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The rise of a prize-fighter (John Garfield).
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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Powerful acting from Garfield, an intelligent left-wing script by Abraham Polonsky, and atmospheric camerawork by James Wong Howe contribute to a classic, showing the environmental forces which shape a man. If some of the movie seems cliched today, at least this was the film which created the cliches. The final fight is among the finest ever on screen; and editors Francis Lyon and Robert Parrish rightly won an Oscar.
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, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks