The Great White Hope (1970)
Directed by Martin Ritt
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
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Unlike Sissy Spacek in The Long Home or Michelle Pfeiffer in Lovefield ( while fictional, these two films contain no elements of “The Great White Hope” or “The Magical Negro”), the Tuohys own background is never explored, which might have made this good movie into an excellent flick.