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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"Raging Bull," "The Great White Hope," "The Fighter," "The Hurricane," and "Cinderella Man" are just a few of the movies that have inspired us, made us think, and brought humanity to otherwise god-like figures that occupy the ring.
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.