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Stock Photo | | Item Specifics - VHS | | | Format: | VHS | | Rating: | NR | | | Leading Role: | Wallace Beery | | Release Date: | Feb 20, 1991 | | | Director: | King Vidor | | UPC: | 027616166531 | | | Format: | NTSC (US, Canada) | | Condition: | New | | | Genre: | Drama | | | | | | Sub-Genre: | -- | | | | | | |
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Here now, NEW, and still factory-sealed! is the video of King Vidor’s 1931 classic
THE CHAMP
Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates, Edward Brophy
The Champ is a film about an ex-fighter turned drunken gambler (Wallace Beery) who lives with his young son Dink (Jackie Cooper). The two live in poverty, fed by the few spurts of money coming from dice throwing. Dink's mother finds him and wants to adopt him, but he prefers the company of his hero, the Champ.
Wallace Beery is wonderful as the Champ. His usually overbearing nature is appropriate to the film, and he does a great job at being vulnerable despite the tough character. It is no wonder that he won an Academy Award for his performance.
Jackie Cooper is amazing as Dink. In some scenes, he almost seems like a wise adult stuck in a child's body. In others, he is appropriately immature and sweet. There just aren't child stars like him anymore.
The film is fluid and fast-paced. The characters are both realistic and relatable, so the film is not a chore to watch in the least. The story is modern; the divorced parents of Dink do not associate with each other, but they both love the son they share.
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| Movie description | In many ways a male version of Vidor's STELLA DALLAS, THE CHAMP also works overtime on the tear ducts. Wallace Beery stars as Andy "Champ" Purcell, the former heavyweight champion, now down and out, who is kept alive by the devotion of his young son, Dink (Jackie Cooper). The champ is trying to make a comeback but continues to backslide into drinking and gambling in Tijuana dives, despite the efforts of Dink and his friends to save the boxer from himself. While gambling, the Champ does manage to win a horse, and while he and Dink are at the track, the boy runs into his mother, Linda (Irene Rich), although neither knows the other. When she speaks with the Champ, he agrees that the boy would be better off living with her and her wealthy husband, Tony (Hale Hamilton). Hiding his love behind a mask of indifference, the Champ convinces the boy to go to the country to live with his mother. But Dink can't abide the separation and runs away to rejoin his father in time for the biggest fight of his career. An unusually understated and affecting performance by Beery along with good work by Cooper erase some of the triteness of the melodrama, which must have spoken powerfully to depression-era audiences whose numbers undoubtedly included more than a few "Champs" struggling to care for their children.
| | Credits | | Writer: | Leonard Praskins | | Producer: | Harry Rapf | | Cast: | Edward Brophy, Hale Hamilton, Irene Rich, Jackie Cooper, Roscoe Ates, Wallace Beery |
| | Notes | Theatrical release: November 13, 1931.
Wallace Beery shared the Best Actor Oscar for 1931-32 with Fredric March.
Beery improvised much of his dialogue.
Beery's contract stipulated that a stunt double would do the fight scenes for him. However, after Vidor invited a number of young women whom Beery knew onto the set to watch fight scenes being shot, the actor suddenly decided to do the fight scenes himself.
| | Awards | 1932 Academy Awards, Best Actor: Wallace Beery
1932 Academy Awards, Best Original Screenplay: Frances Marion
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