The Greatest
Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.
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"The original (and nominal) director here, Tom Gries, died of a heart attack while the film was still in production; somewhat perversely, Monte Hellman (who usually had to struggle to set-up his own personal projects) seemed like the go-to-guy in similar situations – since he would be assigned similar 'doctoring' duties on AVALANCHE EXPRESS (1979), whose own viewing preceded this one! While it was most probably green-lit in the wake of the boxing sleeper hit (and surprise Oscar triumph) ROCKY (1976), earlier in the decade another film on a black champ within this particular sporting f..."
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Sharon Stone met Muhammad Ali when she was 17. She was in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant and Ali was in Hershey, Pennsylvania when Stone was there, and she met him. And then Ali called her father and offered her a part in this film. The boxing champ predicted movie stardom while her father was skeptical. Stone's father said ''She is not going to be in film.'' Ali told her father ''You may think that she is not, but she is. You cannot hide that girl under a bushel basket. Her light is too bright."
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Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.