Sports on the Silver Screen

Name: Sports on the Silver Screen
Director: Unknown
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1997-03-16
Duration: 85 min
Cast: Liev Schreiber, John G. Avildsen, Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, Charlie Chaplin

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1997 · 85 min · Documentary · TMDB 9.0/10

Overview

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of historical figures shown both cinematic and athletic- in this tribute to the merging of sports and Hollywood.

Cast

Liev Schreiber — Self - Narrator (voice)
John G. Avildsen — Self (archive footage)
Lauren Bacall — Self (archive footage)
Humphrey Bogart — Self (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin — Self (archive footage)