Movies
January, 1971
There was a top-notch movie begging to be made from Howard Sackler's The Great White Hope, but the film actually turned out by director Martin Ritt from Sackler's own reverent adaptation is just another pre-sold hit stamped with Broadway's seal of approval. Sackler took no chances with the proven success of the original and Ritt was obviously content to reproduce the poster-art play, which was staged in a style that naïve observers are wont to call Brechtian. That the film version falls far shor...
