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REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
March 12, 2015  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET

 

In 1956, Playhouse 90 presented the live drama premiere of Rod Serling’s Requiem for a Heavyweight, starring Jack Palance as a past-his-prime boxer betrayed by his own manager (Keenan Wynn). Ed Wynn, Keenan’s father, co-starred as the boxer’s aging corner man, and all three were terrific. Six years later, the TV drama was remade as this Hollywood movie, starring Anthony Quinn as the boxer, Jackie Gleason as the manager and Mickey Rooney as the corner man. They’re all very good – but I’m in TV’s corner on his one.

 
 
 
 
 
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