Tennessee Champ
Tennessee Champ is a 1954 American drama film with strong Christian overtones directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, and Charles Bronson
| Tennessee Champ | |
|---|---|
Keenan Wynn from the trailer | |
| Directed by | Fred M. Wilcox |
| Screenplay by | Art Cohn |
| Based on | The Lord in His Corner and other stories by Eustace Cockrell |
| Produced by | Sol Baer Fielding |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | George J. Folsey |
| Edited by | Ben Lewis |
| Music by | Conrad Salinger |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's, Inc. |
Release date | February 25, 1954 |
Running time | 73 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $548,000 |
| Box office | $769,000 |
Mounted as a title to fill out double and triple bills (a B-movie), Tennessee Champ was one of several films Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer shot in its pet process of Ansco Color, a ruddy-looking process employed on the same year's Brigadoon.
The film marked a return to Hollywood for star Shelley Winters, who hadn't appeared in a film in almost two years because of her marriage to Vittorio Gassman (which ended in June 1954) and the birth of their child, Vittoria. The lull came just as she seemed to be on an upswing after roles in Winchester '73 (1950), Phone Call from a Stranger (1952), and her breakthrough tragic performance in A Place in the Sun (1951).