The Greatest

1977
PG
1h 41m

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

1.7K

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Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.

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IMDb RATING

5.9/10

1.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 wins total

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The Greatest (1977)

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Trivia
Sharon Stone met Muhammad Ali when she was 17. She was in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant and Ali was in Hershey, PA, when Stone was there, and she met him. And then Ali called her father and offered her a part in this film. The late 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."

Goofs
Muhammad Ali is shown fighting Joe Bugner during the montage of bouts that took place between the first Joe Frazier fight in 1971 and the first Ken Norton fight in 1973. However, the footage actually is taken from the second fight with Bugner in 1975 instead of their first fight in 1973. Not only is this out of sequence for the montage, but the second Bugner fight occurred after the Ali vs. George Foreman fight in 1974 which is the climax of the film.

Quotes
Drew 'Bundini' Brown: Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can't hit what you can't see.

Connections
Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Muhammed Ali/Peter Falk/Steve Landesberg/Carl Sagan (1977)

Soundtracks
The Greatest Love of All
(main title song)
Sung by George Benson
Music by Michael Masser
Lyrics by Linda Creed

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5/10

Ali reading from a SCRIPT?? LET HIM TALK!!!!

The saddest thing about this film is that the script simply didn't have a feel for Ali's poetry or style...what results is a low-energy, plodding plot with remarkably bad switches from fight scenes to scripted bits. A good movie to break in your fast forward button from fight scene to fight scene. Also look for a forty-something Ferdie Pacheco played by a 70+ year-old actor...remarkable.