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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said "Jim Brown was a gifted athlete — one of the most dominant players to ever step on any athletic field — but also a cultural figure who helped promote change." LeBron James, an NBA star, wrote in tribute that "We lost a hero today. Rest in Paradise to the legend Jim Brown.
A strong supporting cast for Brown was selected. [6] Said Chartoff of the lead character, "This negro is no Harvard graduate on his way to winning a Nobel prize ... He doesn't hit a white man just because he had been hit by him first." [6] Brown's original action double for the film was Black Stuntmen's Association founding member Calvin Brown.
Jim Brown, the NFL titan who appeared in “The Dirty Dozen,” many Blaxploitation films plus Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday,” “The Running Man,” Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks” and ...
Jim Brown relaxing on the set of the 1969 western "100 Rifles." (Ron Galella / Getty) When legendary Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown walked away from his NFL career in his prime, it was ...
The only requirement was that Kaplan meet with Jim Brown. "I found him to be quite sweet, quite charming," says Kaplan. [1] Kaplan found Gene Corman a far more hands on producer than his brother, casting the movie and using his own editor. The film was shot on location mostly at Lincoln Heights Prison in Los Angeles. [1]
On the last of his many visits to Jim Brown's home in Los Angeles, Ray Lewis recalled the legendary running back being as powerful as ever. As a feeble Brown, in the final months of his life ...
Cully Briston (Jim Brown), in for five years and awaiting his eventual parole, wants no part of the riot. He impulsively gets involved, defending a prison guard and protecting him from the maniacs in the block.
Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film two thumbs up [6] to the point where the latter choose it as the #10 choice on his list for the best films of that year. [7]The film was also the inspiration for the 2003 mockumentary film A Mighty Wind.