No way an experienced prizefighter would ever allow himself to be managed by a young kid who can't control his temper.
A role reversal would have been better. Palance could have been an experienced prizefighter who never made it big, as the manager for the young hotheaded Homeier (prettyboy).
Please don't take this the wrong way, but somehow the words "Jack Palance" and "unrealistic character" come across as amusing when used in the same sentence. His whole career was about playing unrealistic characters, probably because he himself was an unrealistic, larger than life character to begin with. He didn't so much act as turn on the Jack Palance switch and inhabit a role. But point well taken, there is a simplistic, unimaginative nature to the scriptwriting in this film that undermines it's effectiveness. I like how the commander is so preoccupied that it never occurs to him that the stupid rockets were on the other side of the hill. Dumb as a sack of hammers.
shareHahaha, my thoughts exactly regarding Palance. Strange guy.
I haven't seen the movie but prizefighters aren't exactly known for their brains and are manipulated and controlled from day one.