Slideshow
CHAMPION
Monday, February 24
6:00
Based on the story by New Yorker contributor Ring Lardner.
U.S., 1949
Directed by Mark Robson
With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy
Screenplay by Carl Foreman.
Approx. 99 min. 35mm print courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive.
The seedy big city fight milieu of sports scribe Ring Lardner’s classic story, with Kirk Douglas epitomizing post-war heeldom, as he slugs his way through opponents, family, and friends en route to the title.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s