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Body and Soul

Screening on Film
Directed by Robert Rossen.
With John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks.
US, 1947, 35mm, black & white, 104 min.

John Garfield garnered an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a tough-as-nails fighter who rises up from his impoverished roots on New York's Lower East Side to earn a shot at the middleweight title. But the crown comes at a cost as the fighter must sign a contract with a crooked racketeer in order to get his chance at the title fight. As in Force of Evil, Abraham Polonsky's screenplay features a searing indictment of moral corruption within the capitalist system.

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