Knockout

Blake Edwards delivers corn as high as an elephant's eye in this lousy Four Star Playhouse opus. It makes one wonder where the four real stars were hiding this week.

Broderick Crawford stars and narrates this standard boxing story, which Blake unfolds with all the cliches. Too much boring fight footage and way too much spoon-fed Brod narration kill off any interest, and the single plot twist left me cold. Poor Blake, every auteur is entitled to an off day and this is it. Adding to the insult, the supporting cast including a nonentity as the young boxer and Ted De Corsia as stereotyped villain is quite poor.