Huston turns an apparently ordinary moment into a remarkably bleak meditation on time, loneliness and what happens to youthful ambition.
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The boxing deliberately doesn't look like Hollywood boxing. Huston emphasized fatigue, awkwardness and physical punishment rather than heroic choreography. Watch how quickly fighters look exhausted—the bouts feel like work rather than spectacle.
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....and then come back together!
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Cokes in championship form
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Curtis Cokes (Earl here) was a professional boxer who competed as a welterweight between 1958 and 1972. He was the welterweight champion between 1966 and 1969.
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I think Oma was born with a cig clenched in her teeth.
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it's interesting that the two male leads share an early scene together and we've watched them in separate plot-lines since then
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"she sure knows how to fill a skirt" LOL
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this was released 4 years before ROCKY and it's kind of an anti-Rocky film showing what it looks like when the big inspirational breakthrough doesn't come.
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You can see why Susan Tyrell received a nomination.
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Susan Tyrrell died in 2012. Her NYT obit described her as "a whiskey-voiced character actress (with) talent for playing the downtrodden, outré, and grotesque."
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OK, just learned this *is* automated machines to harvest onions, I can sleep better tonight.
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hand cutting onions? there must be a more advanced mechanical way to harvest onions these days
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Like Ben said in the intro, this was filmed on location in Stockton, CA, giving it authenticity and grittiness.
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*Bridges!
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Jeff Bridge is 22 here
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LOL He thinks that Anglos won't pay to see two Black guys fight...Not only will they pay to see 2 Black dudes fight and how. They will pay $$$ like he's never seen before to see 2 Filipinos, 2 Mexicans, 2 women... #TCMParty #FatCity #TwoForOne

Sturges worked on:
MYSTERY STREET
BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK
GUNFIGHT AT THE O.K. CORRAL
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
THE GREAT ESCAPE
ICE STATION ZEBRA
...to name a few.
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Much like Carol Burnett, I think Stacy Keach's film career gets overlooked. Tess Harper would be another one. I don't want them to wait until he's dead to do something. #TCMParty #FatCity #TwoForOne

LOL It's Coach (Nick Colasanto) actually being a coach. #TCMParty #FatCity #TwoForOne