REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT
TCM, 9:30 p.m. ET
In 1956, Rod Serling’s live TV drama was the second production of CBS’s Playhouse 90, starring Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn and Ed Wynn in a hit that cemented Serling’s reputation as one of the Golden Age’s finest dramatists. Six years later, this movie was made from Serling’s screenplay, starring Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney. The TV version is superior, but the 1962 movie features, in a small supporting role, a real-life boxer who was about to become heavyweight champ: Cassius Clay, before he changed his name to Muhammad Ali.
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