Lionel

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Clifford P Sep 14 He was feted like the Beatles in Melbourne when he returned with the bantam weight title in 1968. News footage from the time builds this extraordinary story about a nineteen year old boy from the hard side of the road in Gippsland, Victoria. It's a deceptively simple story told mostly by Lionel Rose, his trainers and his immediate family as they watch the screen with us at home in 2008. But underlying the informality is something else, a humility that Lionel Rose brought to world fame, an acceptance of fallibility and a peaceful return to the place he was born. The sparse piano score is a highlight. See more 03/12/2010 a fine documentary of someone i had never even heard off. Should have been the Ali of Australia. See more Read all reviews

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