The Great White Hope

Duration: 104 min

Genre: biography

Year Published: 1970

Creator: Lawrence Turman Films

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Credits: Cast: James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander

Copyright: Registered 11Oct70 · LP38328 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Lawrence Turman Films, Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp

Description: The story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer, Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Jefferson lets his guard down by courting the beautiful, and very white, Eleanor Bachman.

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