Movie
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
Overview
Muhammad Ali’s historic Supreme Court battle from behind closed doors. When Ali was drafted into the Vietnam War at the height of his boxing career, his claim to conscientious objector status led to a controversial legal battle that rattled the U.S. judicial system right up to the highest court in the land.
Details
- Release date
- 2013-10-04
- Runtime
- 97 min
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Rainmark Films, Sakura Films, HBO Films
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Christopher Plummer as John Marshall Harlan
- Frank Langella as Chief Justice Warren Burger
- Ed Begley Jr. as Justice Harry Blackmun
- Peter Gerety as William Brennan
- Barry Levinson as Justice Potter Stewart
- John Bedford Lloyd as Byron 'Whizzer' White
- Fritz Weaver as Hugo Black
- Harris Yulin as William O. Douglas
- Danny Glover as Justice Thurgood Marshall
- Benjamin Walker as Kevin Kennedy
- Pablo Schreiber as Covert Becker
- Ben Steinfeld as Sam Edelstein
Crew
- Stephen Frears - Director
- Shawn Slovo - Writer
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