a.k.a. Cassius Clay

1970

A.k.a. Cassius Clay (styled as a.k.a. Cassius Clay) is a 1970 boxing documentary film about the former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali.

Directed by Jimmy Jacobs, the film was made during Ali's exile from the sport for refusing to be inducted into the US Army on religious grounds. Narrated by Richard Kiley, the film gives an overview of Ali's career to that point. The film features archival footage of people associated with Ali, such as Angelo Dundee, Malcolm X, and Drew Bundini Brown, and clips of his fights with Sonny Liston, Henry Cooper, George Chuvalo and Floyd Patterson. These are intercut with scenes featuring Ali and veteran boxing trainer Cus D'Amato discussing his career and how he would have fared against past champions such as Joe Louis.

The film and subject leaves you with the indelible idea that Ali would not have received the level of acclaim (based on comparative records) he had without the media hype, including this movie. The media hype that attended his rise, fall, intermediate falls and of course his subsequent adulation. Also intimated at, of course, is his personal dismissal of women as merely attendants to men based on his Muslim education.

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:03.11.1970
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Genre:Dokumentarfilm, Boxerfilm
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:Englisch
Verleih:United Artists
Regie:Jimmy Jacobs
Drehbuch:Bernard Evslin
Kamera:Isidore Mankofsky
Musik:Teo Macero
Produzent:Bill Cayton
Darsteller:Muhammad Ali
Cus D’Amato
Richard Kiley
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