The Great White Hope
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✎ Suggest a correctionThe story follows Jack Jefferson, patterned after real-life boxer, Jack Johnson, going on a hot streak of victories in the boxing ring as he defeats every white boxer around. Soon the press and racists announce the search for a "great white hope", a boxer who will defeat Jefferson for the heavyweight title. Jefferson lets his guard down by courting the beautiful, and very white, Eleanor Bachman.
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Registered 11Oct70 · LP38328 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: Lawrence Turman Films, Inc. & Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp
Sources
- U.S. Copyright Office, Catalog of Copyright Entries (renewals, 1970–1978) — title, year, creator, length, copyright
- Wikidata · Q1218542 ↗ — country
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