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Sports on the Silver Screen

03/16/1997

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1hr 25min

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Documentary

We'll have you cheering again.

STORY

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Liev Schreiber
  • Marv Albert
  • John G. Avildsen
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Humphrey Bogart

    Director

  • Leslie D. Farrell

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    Cast

    Liev Schreiber

    Self - Narrator (voice)

    Marv Albert

    Self (archive footage)

    Lauren Bacall

    Self (archive footage)

    Humphrey Bogart

    Self (archive footage)

    Charlie Chaplin

    Self (archive footage)

    Jackie Cooper

    Self (archive footage)

    Billy Crystal

    Self (archive footage)

    Tony Danza

    Self (archive footage)

    Ruby Dee

    Self (archive footage)

    Jack Dempsey

    Self (archive footage)

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