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Kirk Douglas' tour de performance made him an overnight sensation and earned him his first Oscar nomination for Champion, a brutal and uncompromising tale of a boxer whose fight to the top is unhampered by ethics or gratitude. A hero to his fans, his friends know him to be a selfish egomaniac who allows nothing to stand in his way...not even the syndicate. After winning a fight he was supposed to throw, the mob has him attacked. He only survives through the intervention of a woman who becomes his lover...and then just another pawn in his climb up the ladder. After alienating the people who helped him the most, he finally enters the ring to confront his biggest opponent...himself.
"Douglas perfectly cast in title role; gripping film, with Harry Gerstad's Oscar-winning editing." Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Editor's Note
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Actor--Kirk Douglas, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Film Editing.
Plot Summary
The tragic tale of a hard-bitten prizefighter who rises to the top of his profession but can't erase the scars of his underprivileged youth. In his struggle to get ahead, middleweight champ Midge Kelly ends up ruthlessly using -- and abusing -- everyone close to him: his manager, the various women in his life, and, finally, even his crippled brother.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Production Notes | | Scene Access | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Artisan |
| Release Date: 3/26/2002 |
| Running Time: 99 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1949 | | Catalog ID: 10080 | | UPC: 00017153100808 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: B&W |
Aspect Ratio | | 4:3 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1950) |  | Harry W. Gerstad, Winner, Best Film Editing | | | Kirk Douglas, Nominee, Best Actor | | | Franz Planer, Nominee, Best Cinematography, Black-And-White | | | Dimitri Tiomkin, Nominee, Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture | | | Arthur Kennedy, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor | | | Carl Forman, Nominee, Best Writing, Screenplay | |
Golden Globe (1950) | | Franz Planer, Winner, Best Cinematography-Black-And-White |
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