- The Champ
Infobox Film | name = The Champ (1931)
caption = original movie poster
director =King Vidor
producer =King Vidor
writer =Frances Marion Leonard Praskins
starring =Wallace Beery Jackie Cooper Irene Rich
music =
cinematography =Gordon Avil
editing =Hugh Wynn
distributor =Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
released =
runtime = 87 min.
language = English
country = USA
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
imdb_id = 0021730"The Champ" is a 1931 movie that was nominated for the
Academy Award for Best Picture . It was written byFrances Marion ,Leonard Praskins andWanda Tuchock , and directed byKing Vidor .The movie stars
Wallace Beery (boxer) andJackie Cooper (Dink), and tells the story of a washed up alcoholic boxer who tries to put his life together for the sake of his young son Dink.Beery won the Oscar for Best Actor (sharing the prize with
Fredric March for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"), and Marion for Original Screenplay.Remakes
1952 Remake
The movie was remade in
1952 as "The Clown".1979 Remake
External links
*imdb title|id=0021730|title=The Champ
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