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The Great White Hope is a 1967 play written by Howard Sackler, later adapted in 1970 for a film of the same name. The play was first produced by Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and debuted on Broadway at the Alvin Theatre in October 1968, directed by Edwin Sherin with James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in the lead roles.
Oct 16, 1970 · The Great White Hope: Directed by Martin Ritt. With James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen. A Black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
The Great White Hope is a 1970 American biographical romantic drama film written and adapted from the 1967 Howard Sackler play of the same name. The film was directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn.
Feb 25, 2021 · In The Great White Hope, black boxer Jack Jefferson—a name change borne out of legal concerns—becomes so successful that a fight is set up between Jefferson and the reigning heavyweight...
Feb 19, 2017 · 3.2K. 336K views 7 years ago. James Earl Jones stars as Jack Johnson the first African American Heavyweight Champion of the world. ...more.
Written in three acts, The Great White Hope covers the years from 1908 to 1915 and centres on fictional heavyweight boxing champion Jack Jefferson. Jefferson is a proud, outspoken African American and is romantically involved with a white woman, Eleanor Bachman.
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Jack Jefferson (James Earl Jones) is the boxing heavyweight champion of early 1910s America. But as a black man, he's not only fighting other boxers, but discrimination and...
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The Great White Hope is a story of contrasts, of black versus white, or the dark versus the light. Two of Sackler’s white characters, Cap’n Dan and Mrs. Bachman, use these contrasts in their own dramatic monologues to express their feelings about Jack Jefferson.
A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing establishment looks for ways to knock him down.
