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The Champ (1931)
In King Vidor's emotional father-son tearjerker with
the two major tear-inducing scenes:
- the jail scene in which drunken and incarcerated
Andy 'Champ' Purcell (Oscar-winning Wallace Berry) reluctantly
disowned his young, adoring and devoted son Dink (Jackie Cooper)
to send him away to live with his mother ("I'm tired of feeding
you, let her feed you for awhile. I don't like ya anymore, you're
hanging around to every place that I go, and I don't like it, that's
all") as the bawling boy begged: "I wanna stay with you"
- the climactic scene after a boxing bout in which
the down-and-out ex-heavyweight boxing 'Champ' won the match, but
died with Dink by his side in the locker room as he implored: "Keep
your chin up, don't cry, come on, give your old man a smile, keep
it..."
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Jail Scene
Dink by Champ's Side at Death
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