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Le plus grand

Titre original : The Greatest
  • 1977
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  • 1h 41min
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Muhammad Ali in Le plus grand (1977)
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueMuhammad 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.

  • Réalisation
    • Tom Gries
    • Monte Hellman
  • Scénario
    • Muhammad Ali
    • Herbert Muhammad
    • Richard Durham
  • Casting principal
    • Muhammad Ali
    • Ernest Borgnine
    • John Marley
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
  • NOTE IMDb
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    • Réalisation
      • Tom Gries
      • Monte Hellman
    • Scénario
      • Muhammad Ali
      • Herbert Muhammad
      • Richard Durham
    • Casting principal
      • Muhammad Ali
      • Ernest Borgnine
      • John Marley
    • 21avis d'utilisateurs
    • 11avis des critiques
  • Voir les informations de production sur IMDbPro
    • Récompenses
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    Trailer 3:12
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    Muhammad Ali
    Muhammad Ali
    • Cassius Clay…
    Ernest Borgnine
    Ernest Borgnine
    • Angelo Dundee
    John Marley
    John Marley
    • Dr. Ferdie Pacheco
    Lloyd Haynes
    Lloyd Haynes
    • Herbert Muhammad
    Malachi Throne
    Malachi Throne
    • Payton Jory
    Lucille Benson
    Lucille Benson
    • Mrs. Fairlie
    Teddy Wilson
    Teddy Wilson
    • John the Gardener
    • (as Theodore R. Wilson)
    Annazette Chase
    Annazette Chase
    • Belinda Ali
    Mira Waters
    • Ruby Sanderson
    Chip McAllister
    • Cassius Clay - Aged 18
    • (as Phillip 'Chip' McAllister)
    Drew Bundini Brown
    Drew Bundini Brown
    • Drew 'Bundini' Brown
    • (as Drew 'Bundini' Brown)
    Robert Duvall
    Robert Duvall
    • Bill McDonald
    David Huddleston
    David Huddleston
    • Cruikshank
    Ben Johnson
    Ben Johnson
    • Hollis
    James Earl Jones
    James Earl Jones
    • Malcolm X
    Dina Merrill
    Dina Merrill
    • Velvet Green
    Roger E. Mosley
    Roger E. Mosley
    • Sonny Liston
    Paul Winfield
    Paul Winfield
    • Draft Lawyer
    • Réalisation
      • Tom Gries
      • Monte Hellman
    • Scénario
      • Muhammad Ali
      • Herbert Muhammad
      • Richard Durham
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    7Captain_Couth

    Muhammed Ali starring as...Himself!!!

    9?¬9?est (1977) was a bio-pic that starred Muhammed Ali as himself. This film was based upon a biography that was titled the same as the movie. Who else could portray the "Greatest of All Time" other than the man himself. The movie follows Ali from when he was known as Cassius Clay, winning the boxing gold medal, winning the World's Heavyweight Boxing title from Sonny Liston, refusing to be inducted into the military because of his deep religious beliefs and so on. How far does the film go into his life? You'll have to find out when you watch THE GREATEST!!

    I felt that Ali did a good job of portraying himself. I can't see any other person being able of doing the job. ALI, the movie just didn't do the man justice. It was filled with a lot of flaws and omissions. THE GREATEST may not be the best movie around, but if you want to see the man in all of his glory then you have to watch this movie. It was a real hoot to see Ali running his famous "Louisville Lip" and it was also nice to see Ali's inner circle of friends and confidants live and up close. I enjoyed this film much more than the overrated ALI.

    Recommended for boxing fans.
    dtucker86

    Pretty average

    Maybe the producers of this film thought it would be highly original to have Ali play himself. I can picture them sitting down and saying that really there is no actor who could do this man justice (this was before Will Smith was born!). However, Ali just couldn't act. Its sad watching him play himself as a young man when he's so obviously overwieght older and out of shape. Also I think that at the time this film was made, he was beginning to develop Parkinsons. His speech was already becoming slurry. The filmakers surround Ali with a professional cast of actors like James Earl Jones and Ernest Borgnine as Angelo Dundee, but Ali just wasn't right for this. Maybe this is one film that should never have been made. The lead up to the climatic Rumble in the Jungle with Foreman where he regains the title is done very well, it shows him training and running. They show quite a bit of footage from Ali's fights which is fine because they are from his best fights, the only thing is they keep playing the same damn music OVER AND OVER for them! It got kind of irritating. It was thrilling though in the end when Ali went up against the younger and stronger George Foreman and beat him in a stunning upset by using that "rope a dope" strategy. The final words of the film are of the fight commentator when he says "Foreman goes down, Muhammad Ali has done the IMPOSSIBLE! He has regained the Heavyweight Championship of the World"
    lawrence-14

    The greatest commands the screen.

    Ali plays himself impressively in this biography of his remarkable boxing career. The greatest commands the screen alongside such actors as Robert Duval, Ernest Borgnine and James Earl Jones. The film is not as powerful, moving or exciting as it could have been and so is a slightly disappointing dramatization of a legendary boxing story. But, of course, just to see Ali doing what he does best (entertaining out of the ring as well as in) is a must for most. So, see it.
    vchimpanzee

    The greatest plays the greatest

    I said several months ago that no one could play Ali except Ali. I was right. Muhammad Ali does a magnificent job playing himself in this movie. Maybe he's no actor, but in this case he accomplished what he set out to do, and he had several really effective scenes, such as when he explained why he didn't want to go to Vietnam, and the scene where Clay demanded that he no longer be called by that slave name.

    This was the third film (as opposed to documentary) that I saw on the life of the great boxer. David Ramsey did an okay job in the first one, and Will Smith tried his best but didn't quite capture the champ as only the champ could. Smith may have been the best actor out of the three, and certainly his film was the best.

    Chip McAllister made young Cassius Clay too much of a clown. He was okay, I guess, but the portrayal of the character improved dramatically at one point, and I also noticed the actor looked so much more like Clay. That's when I remembered: Ali himself was playing the character.

    Ernest Borgnine did a capable job as Ali's trainer, but this was not one of his best performances. James Earl Jones did a fine job as Malcolm X, brief as the performance was.

    I learned a few new details about Ali's life I didn't know before. I also found out that 'The Greatest Love of All' was written long before Whitney Houston made it a hit.

    The main reason for watching this movie was Ali himself. He was the greatest.
    7planktonrules

    Enjoyable but not exactly a 'warts and all' sort of biopic.

    "The Greatest" is a most unusual biopic in that the subject, Muhammad Ali, actually plays himself in most of the movie. Now, at the beginning, when Cassius Clay wins the Olympic gold, he's played by a different actor. But then it switches in the early 1960s and Ali plays himself. Considering his bigger than life persona, it's not at all surprising he played himself in the picture.

    As I mentioned above, the film follows Clay (later, Muhammad Ali) from his Olympic gold to his career at his peak in the 1970s. As a result, you learn little about his early life and don't get to see the sad decline late in his career...which is probably for the best.

    So is the film any good? Well, Ali is very good playing himself...and he turns out to be quite a decent actor. The film is not perfect, as sometimes it glosses over Ali's weakness (the many women in his life...both wives and mistresses)...but it does hit important things such as his conversion to Islam, his refusal to fight in Vietnam and his major boxing matches. In the latter case, they chose to show footage of the actual matches and fortunately they don't show too much...choosing instead to focus on his life outside the ring...which was a good choice.

    So is it worth watching? Yes. It's definitely a film for anyone who wants to see Ali at his best and most famous period of his life.

    By the way, it didn't harm the film much but having James Earl Jones playing Malcolm X was a mistake. While an amazing actor, he didn't look nor talk much like the man. It is interesting they chose Jones, however, at he played Alex Haley who was interviewing Malcolm X in "Roots: The Next Generation".

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    • Anecdotes
      The film's theme song, "The Greatest Love of All", which was written and recorded to be the movie's main theme, is sung by crooner George Benson and is played during the opening credits of this movie.
    • Gaffes
      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.
    • Citations

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

    • Connexions
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Peter Falk/Steve Landesberg/Carl Sagan/Muhammad Ali (1977)
    • Bandes originales
      The Greatest Love of All
      (main title song)

      Sung by George Benson

      Music by Michael Masser

      Lyrics by Linda Creed

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    • Date de sortie
      • août 1977 (Royaume-Uni)
    • Pays d’origine
      • Royaume-Uni
      • États-Unis
    • Site officiel
      • Sony Movie Channel (United States)
    • Langue
      • Anglais
    • Aussi connu sous le nom de
      • El más grande
    • Lieux de tournage
      • Houston, Texas, États-Unis
    • Sociétés de production
      • Columbia Pictures
      • EMI Films
      • John Marshall Productions
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    • Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
      • 8 284 000 $US
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    • Durée
      1 heure 41 minutes
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    • Mixage
      • Mono
    • Rapport de forme
      • 1.85 : 1

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