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| Robert Blake in Ripped-Off YEAR: 1972 Released: 1975 Rates: ***1/2 |
In
RIPPED-OFF, originally titled THE BOXER and also going by COUNTER
PUNCH, MURDER IN THE RING, CHAMP CHEROKEE and TOUGH GUY, Robert Blake is
a drifting Vietnam Vet boxer named Cherokee...
After a
come-back and then being set-up to lose an important match, is accused
of slaying his manager and, in the usual Noir fashion, is desperate to
find the real killer...
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Robert Blake in THE BOXER
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Most of the movie feels pasted
together with dubbed dialogue and a myriad of awkward, often hilarious
close-up/inserts, one in particular involving a brawling Blake blinded
by a spiked rag: making his eyes blink like a frantic cartoon character...
Also includes an evil hippie (Tomas Milian); a stone-faced love-interest Catherine Spaak, an overly obvious surprise villain,
wah-wah peddle music and Ernest Borgnine's sporadic "guest
appearance" scenes as a growling cop out to nab our troubled bruiser...
whose performance is more BARETTA than IN COLD BLOOD... makes this
corny, campy, obscure import a thoroughly addictive guilty pleasure.
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Robert Blake in THE BOXER
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| Tomas Milian in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Catherine Spaak in THE BOXER |
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| Ernest Borgnine in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Tomas Milian in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Robert Blake in THE BOXER |
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| Catherine Spaak in THE BOXER |
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