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Robert Rein (narration script)
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26 April 1951 (USA)
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Based on Kubrick's pictorial for Look Magazine (January 18, 1949) entitled "Prizefighter," "Day Of The...
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(Complete credited cast) | Douglas Edwards | ... | Narrator (voice) |
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16 min | 13 min (TCM print)
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The final sequence (the Walter Cartier vs. Bobby James bout) was filmed live on 17 April 17 1950 by Stanley Kubrick and Alexander Singer.
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In these hours he can feel his body tightening, but it's a tightness that does not come from lack of confidence, it's the pressure of the last waiting. Here in a place where the walls are so close a man can barely move his body around. If only the fight would come, then everything else would not be so bad -- not really bad at all.
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Referenced in Killer's Kiss (1955)
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Had Stanley Kubrick never gone on to become a famous director, three of his early films would never have been packaged together for sale on a DVD. That's because these films are cheap shorts made by an eager and unknown director--hardly works of art. They show none of the director's expert touches--they are just standard short films you might have seen in the early 1950s.
Of the three films in this package, the only one really worth seeing for most people is DAY OF THE FIGHT. While it's not a great film (made with a cheap hand-held camera) and seems rather "square", it does remind you of his first feature, KILLER'S KISS and it surely provided an excellent training ground for his craft. In other words, if Kubrick hadn't done a "throwaway" film like DAY OF THE FIGHT, he wouldn't have been able to make such a great low-budget film like KILLER'S KISS.
Overall, a film most could skip but perhaps worth seeing for fans of this director or students who are in film school.