The untold story of the Rumble in the Jungle.
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the money. He finds a willing backer in Mobutu Sese Suko, the dictator of Zaire, and the "Rumble in the Jungle" is set, including a musical festival featuring some of America's top black performers, like James Brown and B.B. King.
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- pablogeezeron TMDB · Aug 2013
Roger Ebert February 27, 1997 The heavyweight title fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire on Oct. 30, 1974--”The Rumble in the Jungle”--is enshrined as one of the great sports events of the century. It was also a cultural and political happening. Into the capital of Kinshasa flew planeloads of performers for an “African Woodstock,” TV crews, Howard Cosell at the head of an international contingent of sports journalists, celebrity fight groupies like Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, and of course the two principals: Ali, then still controversial because of his decision to be a conscientious objector, and Foreman, now huggable and lovable in TV commercials but then seen as fearsome and forbidding. “I'm young, I'm handsome, I'm fast, I'm strong, and I can't be beat,” Ali told the press. They didn't believe him. Foreman had destroyed George Frazier, who had defeated Ali. Foreman was younger, bigger and stronger, with a punch so powerful, Mailer recalled, “that after he was finished with a heavy punching bag, it had a depression pounded into it.” Ali was 33 and thought to be over the hill. The odds were 7-1 against him. The Zaire that they arrived in was a country muc
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Cast
- Muhammad AliSelf
- George ForemanSelf
- Don KingSelf
- James BrownSelf
- B.B. KingSelf
- Spike LeeSelf
- Mobutu Sese SekoSelf
- Norman MailerSelf
- George PlimptonSelf
- Malick BowensSelf
Crew
- Leon GastDirector
- Leon GastWriter
- Paul GoldsmithDirector of Photography
- Maryse AlbertiDirector of Photography
- Kevin KeatingDirector of Photography
- Leon GastEditor
- Taylor HackfordEditor
- Jeffrey Kusama-HinteEditor
- Taylor HackfordProducer
- Leon GastProducer
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