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06/21/2007 Archived Entry: "Sports & Boxing Prominent in AFI Top 100 Films!"
Sports & Boxing Prominent in AFI Top 100 Films!
By Steve Lot
I thought you might find this interesting. In last nights CBS telecast of the anniversary of the AFI Top 100 Films of all time there were 6 films that had to do with sports or an athlete, 5 of them were boxing:
# 92 Pulp Fiction - Bruce Willis is the Boxer
# 76 Forest Gump - Tom Hanks plays Football and Table Tennis
# 57 Rocky - Sly Stallone
# 19 On the Waterfront - Brando the retired boxer
# 11 City Lights - Chaplin is the boxer
# 4 Raging Bull - Deniro plays former middleweight champion Jake Lamotta
