Sports on the Silver Screen

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Mar 16, 97 Documentary

Overview

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.

Writer
Leslie D. Farrell
Writer
Frank Deford
Editor
David Salamone
Executive Producer
Ross Greenburg
Associate Producer
Jonathan Crystal

Top Billed Cast

Liev Schreiber
Self - Narrator (voice)
Marv Albert
Self (archive footage)
John G. Avildsen
Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall
Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart
Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Robert Chartoff
Self (archive footage)

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