09 Apr 1949
Champion
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
The Last American Hero
Instead of a white stallion, he rode a full race, powder blue stocker.
A young hell raiser quits his moonshine business and tries to become the best NASCAR racer the south has ever seen. Loosely based on the true story of NASCAR driver Junior Johnson.
Top Billed Cast
Jeff Bridges Elroy Jackson Jr.
Valerie Perrine Marge Dennison
Geraldine Fitzgerald Frau Jackson
Ned Beatty Hackel
Gary Busey Wayne Jackson
Lane Smith Rick Penny
Ed Lauter Burton Colt
William Smith Kyle Kingman
Gregory Walcott Cleve Morley
Art Lund Elroy Jackson Sr.
Jimmy Murphy Spud
Tom Ligon Lamar
Erica Hagen Trina Kingman
Garland Atkins TV Reporter (uncredited)
John Samuel Brawley Joe Casper (uncredited)
Bob Cole Marshall Collins (uncredited)
Lewis Compton Track Announcer - Martinsville (uncredited)
Bill Connell Tiny (uncredited)
Paul Holman Party Guest (uncredited)
Ned Jarrett Track Announcer - Hickory (uncredited)
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Generation
Futuristic prospective series pilot, a distant cousin the 1975 theatrical violent sport movie "Rollerball," revolves around a turn-of-the-millennium family on the Great Eve (the night before the year 2000 begins) planning for a reunion. Son Richard Beymer is an inventor working with prosthetic devices to help young athlete brother Drake Hogestyn perfect his game of combat hockey to maintain his skills as a national hero, and Cristina Raines is a socially conscious doctor who wants nothing to do with their prideful father, Bert Remsen, to the distress of their loving mother, Priscilla Pointer.
Two Fists, One Heart 
