good television
Requiem for a Heavyweight has to be one of the best television dramas ever conceived and aired. Same with Patterns
best version
this version of requiem for a heavy weight is much better than the anthony quinn version which hurts me to say it as I love anthony quinn. Jack palance is one of the only famous actors that used to be a heavy weight pro boxer in real life. his acting is perfect. it is a great story. the other version is over dramatized and over acted. the ending is also different and better.
Classic Rod Serling
I've seen the movie version of Requiem many years ago and found it quite good. Rod Serling often wrote about man under pressure with regard to his work. I did not know there was an early TV version of this story until I found out about this one starring Jack Palance, Keenan and Ed Wynn, and Kim Hunter. What a cast. It's nicely done for early tv, and the ending is different than the movie. Patterns is a theatrical film, also written by Mr. Serling and once again about work pressures, this time in a big business in the city. The performances here are also quite good, featuring Ed Begley. It reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode _A Stoop At Willoughby.
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