Jose Torres with his
mentor Cus D’Amato, the man he credited with creating him as a fighter
Original
Title: Jose Torres II
Year: 1965
Running Time:
58 min
Country:
Japan
Director:
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Screenwriter:
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Music: Toru
Takemitsu
Cinematography:
Marvin E. Newman (B&W)
Cast: Jose
Torres, Cus D’Amato
Producer:
Teshigahara Productions
Genre:
Documentary | Biography | Boxing | Half-length Film | Sports Documentaries
Synopsis/Plot:
This is the
sequel to Jose Torres (1959), the portrayal of Puerto Rican boxer Jose Torres,
who won a silver medal in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. We follow Torres from
his training in preparation to challenge light-heavyweight champion Wilie
Pestrano, to the match and Torres’ victory in 1965. The contrast between the
nervous Torres before the match, filmed in painstaking detail, and the first
round, filmed in one shot, is striking.
The
aforementioned information is reproduced from the website of Film Affinity.
Adeyinka
Makinde is a contributor to the Cambridge Companion
to Boxing. One of his two contributions is Chapter 19, “Jose Torres: The
Boxer as Writer”.
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