Nicholas Colasanto

Robert De Niro won a Best Actor Oscar in this acclaimed masterpiece as Jake LaMotta, the controversial 1940s prize fighter whose brutality transcended beyond the ring.

John Huston’s powerful story, with a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, about the meagre hopes and dreams in the world of amateur boxing. Washed-up boxer, Tully (Stacy Keach), struggles with past demons while his spar partner Ernie (Jeff Bridges), faces new personal challenges. But the two men come to blows when their boxing careers begin to take different directions.