| The Great White Hope | |
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| Directed by | Martin Ritt |
| Screenplay by | Howard Sackler |
| Based on | The Great White Hope by Howard Sackler |
| Produced by | Lawrence Turman |
| Starring | James Earl Jones Jane Alexander |
| Cinematography | Burnett Guffey |
| Edited by | William Reynolds |
| Music by | Lionel Newman |
Production company | Lawrence Turman Films |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time | 103 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $9.87 million[1] |
| Box office | $9.325 million (rentals)[2] |
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.[3][4][5]
The film was directed by Martin Ritt, starring James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Chester Morris, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn. Jones and Alexander, who also appeared in the same roles in the stage versions, received Best Actor and Actress Academy Award nominations for their performances.
The film and play is based on the true story of boxer Jack Johnson and his first wife, Etta Terry Duryea, and the controversy over their marriage and Duryea's death by suicide in 1912.[6]
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- ^ Vincent Canby (October 12, 1970). "'Great White Hope' Brought to Screen". The New York Times.
- ^ Sackler, Howard (1968). The Great White Hope, A Play. New York, NY: The Dial Press, Inc. OCLC 451597.
- ^ Unforgivable Blackness Retrieved May 11, 2016