The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope

The Great White Hope

Genres
Drama

Release Date: Oct 11, 1970

Runtime: 103 minutes

Rating: 6.2/10

Status: Released

Production Companies
  • Lawrence Turman Productions
  • 20th Century Fox

Overview

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.

"He could beat any white man in the world. He just couldn't beat all of them."

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Cast

James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Chester Morris ,

Robert Webber, Marlene Warfield, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards, Moses Gunn, Larry Pennell, Marcel Dalio, Manuel Padilla Jr., Scatman Crothers, R.G. Armstrong, Rodolfo Acosta, Ernest Anderson

Crew

Martin Ritt, Lawrence Turman, Walter M. Scott, Howard Sackler, Burnett Guffey ,

John DeCuir, Raphael Bretton, William Reynolds, Edwin Butterworth, Jerry Ziesmer, Donald McKayle, Paul Stanhope Jr., Irene Sharaff, Jack Martin Smith, Marvin Weldon, Pat Abbott, Tim Zinnemann, Lionel Newman, Howard Sackler