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Requiem for a Heavyweight

The world of Mountain Riviera... the fast buck... the angry men... the lonely woman!

Rating 7.2 / 10Release October 16, 1962Runtime 95 min

After suffering a brutal defeat and being told he can no longer fight, 37-year-old, scar-ridden prizefighter Louis 'Mountain' Rivera struggles to find a new direction in life.

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