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The Champ
Directed by
King Vidor
Passed
1931
86m
Drama
,
Family
,
and more
7.2
96%
76%
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An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
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Cast of The Champ
Wallace Beery
Andy 'Champ' Purcell
Jackie Cooper
Dink Purcell
Irene Rich
Linda Carleton
Roscoe Ates
Sponge
Edward Brophy
Tim
Hale Hamilton
Tony Carleton
Jesse Scott
Jonah
Marcia Mae Jones
Mary Lou Carleton
Dannie Mac Grant
Boy Taunting Dink (uncredited)
Frank Hagney
Mexican Champ Manuel Quiroga (uncredited)
Dell Henderson
The Doctor (uncredited)
Tom McGuire
Los Angeles Promoter (uncredited)
Bob Perry
Referee (uncredited)
Lee Phelps
Louie the Bartender (uncredited)
Andy Shuford
Boy at Racetrack (uncredited)
Dan Tobey
Ring Announcer (uncredited)
King Vidor
Director / Producer
Frances Marion
Writer
Harry Rapf
Producer
Irving Thalberg
Producer
William Murray Weiss
Producer
The Champ Ratings & Reviews
Boston Globe
Globe Staff
Wallace Beery, one of the finest actors In Hollywood, plays the co-starring role with Jackie. It is a real treat for film fans to see the two together.
Chicago Tribune
Mae Tinee
The Champ may be hokum. but if so it's the sort of hokum that this old world of ours loves -- and needs.
Photoplay
Shadow Stage
It's one of the best talkies of the year, and if you don't get many times your money's worth out of it, you'd better see a psychiatrist.
Motion Picture Magazine
Picture Parade
Was there, by any slightest chance, the tiniest bit of doubt in your mind when you heard that Wally Beery and Jackie Cooper were to be co-starred, that the picture would be a wow?
Harrison's Reports
P.S. Harrison
The MGM studio forces should be congratulated for turning out a picture, so excellent an entertainment, with so powerful a moral.
The Film Daily
Film Daily Staff
King Vidor has taken a frail, homely story and invested it with human and frequently throbbing touches.
Los Angeles Times
Edwin Schallert
Perhaps The Champ is the old Stella Dallas recipe for film-making, perhaps It is overstressjd in its emotion, perhaps it is slow and even dull in the opening reels but the punch of the finish is terrific.
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Martin Dickstein
A picture which might easily have become maudlin in its appeal for tears, it has been handled with a restraint that is a credit to director and players alike.
Three Movie Buffs
Scott Nash
Despite the blatant manipulation, this movie is enjoyable, just be sure to wear your rubber boots when watching, because you'll be knee deep in sap by the time you're done with it.
CinePassion
Fernando F. Croce
Not a "weepie" but an emotive examination of tangled milieus.
New York Daily News
Irene Thirer
Not in the history of talkies was weeping so profuse and so enjoyable as at this premiere of The Champ, a production which combines the amazing talents of little Jackie Cooper with the superb histrionics of big Wallace Beery.
TIME Magazine
TIME Staff
Utterly false and thoroughly convincing, The Champ is a monument to the cinema's skill in achieving second-rate perfection.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
...a fine premise that's employed to watchable yet entirely unspectacular effect by King Vidor...
Unseen Films
Nathanael Hood
What could've come across as schmaltz hums with the belief that what we're seeing is somehow sacred and true.
Vanity Fair
Pare Lorentz
It was, from beginning to end, a moving picture, and not a photographed play, with obvious miniatures, backdrops, and stage sets.
New York Times
Mordaunt Hall
This picture is a further example of clever acting saving the day, for there is little in this narrative of horse racing and pugilistic bouts that possesses much akin to originality.
Variety
Variety Staff
A good picture, almost entirely by virtue of an inspired performance by a boy, Jackie Cooper.
TV Guide
TV Guide Staff
A film with a lot of heart, unafraid to bare its emotions.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The film is so dated that it creaks.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
King Vidor's first (and still best) version of this sentimental saga is worth seeing for the performances of Wallace Beery (who won the Oscar) as down-on-his-luck prizefigher as terrific child actor Jackie Cooper as his son.
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