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Boxing movies showing soon on the Turner Classic Movie TV station include:

"Champion" (1949) with Kirk Douglas, Feb. 5 at 8:15 a.m. EST.

And "Fat City" (1972), with Stacy Keach and Jeff Bridges, Feb. 12 at 10 p.m. EST.

TCM has a feature at its site that will send you an e-mail reminder seven days and 24 hours before the showing.

Thanks for that info Ric.
Fat City is my favorite flick.

I watched "Ali" the other night on tv, it was weird cause it was on Much More Music here in Canada, but the film has nothing to do with Music, I guess it's because Will Smith is/was a musician.

How about James Toney as Joe Fraizer, he must of been only around 205-210lbs playing the part, He Looked good, it'd be nice to see him in that kind of Conditioning once again.

Bump! "Fat City" is on tonight.

On Turner Classic Movies this month:

March 14: "Keep Punching" starring Henry Armstrong.
March 20: 1936 comedy "The Milky Way"
March 28: "Here Comes Mr. Jordan"

Again, TCM has a feature that sends you two e-mail reminders of any upcoming movie you select.

Some time supposedly in June (I haven't been informed of the exact date yet), PBS's History Detectives show will be airing an episode on Jack Dempsey. It will cover his championship fight with Willard and other parts of his career. Jack Kearns, Jr. (Doc's son) and Bert Sugar Randolph were interviewed for the show. Some of the photos used for the episode are from my personal collection. I will repost when I'm informed of the date or you can check on it at PBS.org - under the History Detectives. As of 3/30, they haven't posted the episodes for the upcoming season yet which starts in June.

Keep punching, your chin down & your ass off the canvas,

Tony Triem
Boxing Historian
Las Vegas, NV

PBS called today - the History Detectives episode on Jack Dempsey will be airing July 9th at 9 PM PDT. Those on the East Coast & Mid-West, check your TV listings for that day. I hope it's as good as what I have been lead to believe!!

Keep punching, your chin down & your ass off the canvas,

Tony Triem
Boxing Historian
Las Vegas, NV

anyone ever seen the movie,
JOE PALOOKA,CHAMP(1946).
in it is not only Joe Louis,
but Lou Nova,Jack Roper etc.
Ive never seen it myself,just asking.
I always like seeing famous boxers in old movies.

On Turner Classic Movies tomorrow, Saturday, "The Harder They Fall' with Humphrey Bogart, Max Baer, and Jersey Joe Walcott.

On July 23 TCM is showing, back-to-back, "Kid Dynamite," "The Joe Louis Story," and "The Milky Way."
http://www.tcm.com/schedule/month/

TCM is currently playing "Somebody up there likes me." This is worth watching if only to see Tony Zale playing himself in the second Zale /Graziano fight.

Last night must have been Rocky Marciano day or something, because on the Documentary channel they had 'Rocky Marciano: A Life Story' and on ESPN Classic they not only had the Rocky Marciano movie, they had the top ten Heavyweights on RINGSIDE and the second part to the RINGSIDE series on Marciano.

Is that the same Rocky Marciano film with Duane Davis as Joe Louis & Penelope Anne-Miller & Judd Hirsch?

That was a pretty impressive film IMO. The fight scenes were done better than some bigger budget boxing movies.

"Rocky!!!!"


All day on Turkey Day.......

Coming soon on Turner Classic Movies:

Early Dec. 14: the 1932 boxing movie "The Big Timer" ("A young boxer fights prejudice to work with a female manager").
Early Saturday Dec. 15: the classic "The Set Up" ("An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight").
Later in the month, Dec 29, the 1949 Kirk Douglas movie "Champion" ("An unscrupulous boxer claws his way to the top").

James Cagney's 1932 movie "Winner Take All" is on TCM, Jan. 3 at 8:00 a.m. (EST).

Coming this month on the Turner Classic Movies channel (see the "date and time" notation at the top-right hand of the following TCM Web pages):
1) March 4 (and April 19): "Body and Soul"
2) March 5: "The Mighty McGurk"
3) March 6: "Sunday Punch"
4) March 21: "The Prizefighter and the Lady," starring Max Baer, with appearances by Jack Dempsey and Primo Carnera.
5) March 21: "Penitentiary"

As usual, you can have TCM e-mail you a reminder for each movie selected.

Evander Holyfield is the guest programmer on the Turner Classic Movies channel for the month of March.

"Body & Soul" is on TCM at 5:00 PST (8:00 EST) Saturday morning. See TCM weekly schedule here.

They had Stallone on with Jay Leno last night. Stallone looked terrible. He needs a new surgeon or to stay out of the sun. Poor guy......

He is in his sixties now. You can't look young forever.

ringsider wrote:They had Stallone on with Jay Leno last night. Stallone looked terrible. He needs a new surgeon or to stay out of the sun. Poor guy......

Years of taking steroids.

..."the milky way".. a harold llyod flick was remade as 'the kid from brooklyn" starring danny kaye.

i think "body and soul" is not just the all-time greatest boxing movie, but one of the all-time greatest movies, period.

if "city for conquest" ever pops up see it...a boxing them with jimmy cagney. i think the title is one of the most evocative ones ever.

August 2 Saturday @ 6:00 AM (all times Eastern) The Knockout (1914) -- In this silent short, a young man tries to impress his girlfriend by signing on for a boxing match. Cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin. Dir: Charles Avery. BW-27 mins. (following by a whole day of Charlie Chaplin films, including a hilarious boxing scene in City Lights!)

August 20 Wednesday @ 6:00 AM Kid Galahad (1937) -- A mob-connected trainer grooms a bellhop for the boxing ring. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-102 mins. (Followed by a dozen more Edward G. Robinson movies immediately afterward.)

(And Saturday the 23rd has a day-long Laurel and Hardy festival--with two dozen film shorts!)

Here's a link to the Pacific Times daily schedule (where to can create an e-mail reminder):

Ric wrote:August 2 Saturday @ 6:00 AM (all times Eastern) The Knockout (1914) -- In this silent short, a young man tries to impress his girlfriend by signing on for a boxing match. Cast: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Edgar Kennedy, Charles Chaplin. Dir: Charles Avery. BW-27 mins. (following by a whole day of Charlie Chaplin films, including a hilarious boxing scene in City Lights!)

August 20 Wednesday @ 6:00 AM Kid Galahad (1937) -- A mob-connected trainer grooms a bellhop for the boxing ring. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris. Dir: Michael Curtiz. BW-102 mins. (Followed by a dozen more Edward G. Robinson movies immediately afterward.)

(And Saturday the 23rd has a day-long Laurel and Hardy festival--with two dozen film shorts!)

Here's a link to the Pacific Times daily schedule (where to can create an e-mail reminder):

Fatcity is my favourite ever boxing film!...