Slideshow
CHAMPION
Based on the story by New Yorker contributor Ring Lardner.
U.S., 1949
Directed by Mark Robson
Screenplay by Carl Foreman
With Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy
Approx. 99 min. 35mm.
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.
35mm preservation print courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive.
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