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Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.Muhammad Ali plays himself in a reconstruction of the events that brought him to fame.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Teddy Wilson
- John the Gardener
- (as Theodore R. Wilson)
Chip McAllister
- Cassius Clay - Aged 18
- (as Phillip 'Chip' McAllister)
Drew Bundini Brown
- Drew 'Bundini' Brown
- (as Drew 'Bundini' Brown)
- Directors
- Tom Gries
- Monte Hellman(uncredited)
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSharon Stone met Muhammad Ali when she was 17. She was in the Miss Pennsylvania pageant and Ali was in Hershey, Pennsylvania, when Stone was there and she met him. And then Ali called her father and offered her a part in his film that he was making (The Greatest). The late boxing champ predicted movie stardom while her father was skeptical. Sharon Stone's father said, ''She is not going to be in film.'' Ali told her father, ''You may think that she is not, but she is. You cannot hide that girl under a bushel basket. Her light is too bright.".
- GoofsAli is shown fighting Joe Bugner during the montage of bouts that took place between the first Frazier fight in 1971 and the first Norton fight in 1973.
However the footage is actually taken from the second fight with Bugner in 1975 instead of their first fight in 1973. Not only is this out of sequence for the montage but the second Bugner fight occurred after the Ali vs Foreman fight in 1974 which is the climax of the film.
- Quotes
Drew 'Bundini' Brown: Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee. You can't hit what you can't see.
- SoundtracksThe Greatest Love of All
(main title song)
Sung by George Benson
Music by Michael Masser
Lyrics by Linda Creed
Featured review
Not The Best Screen Treatment
Who better to play someone as larger than life as Muhammed Ali than Muhammed Ali. And The Greatest delivers, the man that is not the movie. Unsurprisingly, the flair and charm that made Ali so popular translates to the screen and he's a decent actor(even if it isn't the most challenging role).
However, the rest of The Greatest is very much of a second rate, made for television kind of movie. Doing nothing more than serving as a banal checklist of his life up to that point.
However, the rest of The Greatest is very much of a second rate, made for television kind of movie. Doing nothing more than serving as a banal checklist of his life up to that point.
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- RonellSowes
- Feb 6, 2022
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- Also known as
- Ich bin der Grösste
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $8,284,000
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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