Body and Soul

This Academy Award-winning noir finds a young boxer navigating a corrupt sporting world.

  • Director

    Robert Rossen

  • With

    John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere

  • USA 1947. 106min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    PG

  • A BFI National Archive print

Against the wishes of his family, amateur boxer Charlie Davis embarks on a professional career, only to be faced with a moral dilemma when his success attracts the attention of the underworld. One of Hollywood’s most revered boxing films and winner of the Academy Award® for Best Editing, Body and Soul frames the spirit of the sport as a fight with one’s conscience as much as it does the battle with a worthy adversary.

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