At one point, after a long night contending with the raging cobb, stump passes out and cobb discovers his notes for his nopunchespulled version, bringing on an epic explosion from cobb. His article, ty cobb s wild 10month fight to live, written for true magazine, won the best american sport story award of 1962. Cobb is a nonreverential hollywood biopic about one of baseballs greatest players. Cobb 1994 is an american biopic about the baseball player ty cobb 1886 1961, who had played for the detroit tigers and, later, the philadelphia athletics. Sportswriter al stump is hired in 1960 as ghostwriter of an authorized autobiography of baseball player tyrus raymond ty cobb.
Being locked up with this movie for 123 minutes is like taking a threeday bus trip sitting next to hunter s. A sportswriter is contacted by cobb to write a whitewa. Sheltons film is about the nature of truth and popular myth, about the singleminded pursuit of glory, and the horrors within. He was famous for using his spikes to injure opposing basemen, and would fight at the drop of a hat. In the movie, an aging cobb hires stump to ghostwrite his autobiography. Cobb 1994 ty cobb was a great baseball player but not a good person. The picture was written and directed by ron shelton and based on a book by al stump. Al stump in recent years has proved to be a liar and a forger so sports historians are calling into question a great deal of his supposed insight into ty cobb. It was the basis for the 1994 motion picture cobb, directed by ron shelton. New books change ty cobbs image the tennessee tribune.
Feb 07, 2020 this film is considered both one of the worst sports movies and one of the worst biopics ever. This movie doesnt care about cobb the baseball giant. As they travel together to the baseball hall of fame, stump dodges cobb s drunkenly aimed bullets and withering verbal assaults and learns more than he ever wanted to know about cobb not only of his greatness, but of his egomania, bigotry, rage and basic contempt for all of mankind. The knife in ty cobbs back history smithsonian magazine. Shortlists the 45 best bookto film adaptations ever. Tommy lee jones and robert wuhl in cobb 1994 tommy lee jones in cobb. Cobb ron shelton, tommy lee jones, robert wuhl, lolita. Watch cobb 1994 full movie online free on putlocker free. Tommy lee jones born september 15, 1946 is an american actor and film director. Al stump for his 1994 film, cobb, an outrageous story about the last months of the legends life. Find films and movies featuring tommy lee jones on allmovie.
Tommy lee jones complete filmography show list info. The 100 best films span all genres and tell stories of romance, determination, fear, money, success, failure. First things first, this movie is based off of a book written by al stump, who is played by robert wuhl in the film. Indeed, the 1994 hollywood movie cobb, starring tommy lee jones, was based on stumps account of the time he spent. Find out where to watch, buy, and rent cobb online on moviefone. Cobb is a magnificently evil and deranged character, ranting and raving, shooting bullet holes through walls and ceilings, making a public. In 1990, the cobb county sheriffs office in cooperation with the cobb solicitor general and magistrate court, implemented a program that provided an alternative to. Later stump would claim the collaboration was contentious, and after cobb s death stump published two more books and a short story giving what he claimed was the true story. Another black mark against the film is that it has very little actual baseball in it. Tommy lee joness searing performance helps to elevate cobb above your typical sports biopic. A home of our own 1993 le film complet en francais. Cobb is a 1994 biopic starring tommy lee jones as the famed baseball player ty cobb. Meet the cast and learn more about the stars of cobb with exclusive news, pictures, videos and more at. As the movie shows, al stump wrote two books on ty cobb.
The official flattering portrait that was published after cobb s death in 1961 and then a second book more than 30 years later, which this movie is based on. The film concludes with the news that cobb has died and we see several scenes from cobb s playing career, with stump gaining a grudging respect for the player. One of these later books was used as the basis for the 1994 film cobb a box office flop starring tommy lee jones as cobb and directed by ron shelton. Cobb 1994 regarder film complet films decennie zone. Book, granddaughter present kinder image of ty cobb. Technically the first film about baseball was a short called the ball game that came. Based on a book based on an article by al stump, cobb is. Regarder cobb 1994 toutes les infos sur le film complet cobb en francais, streaming gratuit, soustitres et audio dorigine. Cobb dvd, 2003 interesting biopic about one of baseballs greatest players and clearly most controversial characters. Cobb est le plus grand film fourni par regency enterprises, alcor films, warner bros. Baseball movie checklist a list of every baseball movie in history.
Cobb offers a towering performance by tommy lee jones, but the accuracy of the life of one of baseballs greats is questionable in this film that has almost no baseball in it, but more focuses. This film is considered both one of the worst sports movies and one of the worst biopics ever. Cobb est le tout film cree par regency enterprises, alcor films, warner bros. The movies biting focus on cobb, ferociously performed by jones, is not matched by. Jun 03, 2015 christopher nolan has discussed the controversial and ambiguous ending to his film inception, which saw a spinning top rotating and wobbling a little before cutting to black. He played baseball like every game was a war, and the other team was the enemy. It documents cobbs amazing rise to stardom, doesnt gloss over troubling moments during his playing and managing days, and demolishes a lot myths while taking apart the al stump biography at the root of many cobb myths, as well as the 1994 ron shelton film cobb, that also was severely flawed, and included along with allegations of. To include one side of the man without the other is a pointless exercise in selfrighteousness.
Baseball movies are simply great and anyone who has ever watched bang the drum slowly or the natural know exactly what baseball almanac is talking about. Ty cobb was by many accounts a meantempered, vicious, drunken, wife beating, racist sob who was impossible to spend any length of time with, and the movie cobb faithfully represents those qualities, especially the last one. Kirk douglas is an american actor, producer, director, and author from the film industrys golden age, who debuted opposite barbara stanwyck in. Christopher nolan has discussed the controversial and ambiguous ending to his film inception, which saw a spinning top rotating and wobbling. Jones deviated from his characteristic flinty inscrutability with his turn as the deranged villain twoface in batman forever 1995 before playing straight man to will smith in the alien comedy men in black 1997 and its sequels 2002 and 2012. The reality is that cobb s a bully, bigot and womanbeater. The original music score was composed by elliot goldenthal. Jun 09, 2015 in the 1994 film cobb, starring tommy lee jones, the ballplayer is introduced as unshaven, surrounded by bottles of pills and booze and recklessly shooting his gun at a guest who knocks on his door. Baseballs premier hitter, he was a ferocious player on and off the field. Baseball legend ty cobb tommy lee jones pressures biographer al stump robert wuhl to. While there are a lot of great sports movies i can think of missing, here are the top 50, according to. Cobb 1994 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
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