Champion/ Body And Soul (2-Pack) (1949) Rating: Starring: Kirk Douglas, John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, William Conrad, Lloyd Goff, Arthur Kennedy, Canada Lee, Marilyn Maxwell, Joseph Pevney, Anne Revere Director: Mark Robson, Robert Rossen Category: Drama, Classics, Classics Studio: Artisan Subtitles: [None] Length: 204 mins Want to buy?           Champion: Kirk Douglas's tour de force performance made him an overnight sensation and earned him his first Oscar® nomination for "Champion," a brutal and uncompromising tale of a boxer whose fight to the top is unhampered by ethics or gratitude.A hero to his fans, his friends know him to be a selfish egomaniac who allows nothing to stand in his way… not even the syndicate.After winning a fight he was supposed to throw, the mob has him attacked.He only survives through the intervention of a woman who becomes his lover… and then just another pawn in his climb up the ladder.After alienating the people who helped him the most, he finally enters the ring to confront his biggest opponent… himself. Body And Soul: John Garfield delivers an Oscar®-nominated, knockout performance in this story of driving ambition in and out of the ring that stands as a classic of its genre.Garfield stars as Charley Davis, a strong-willed young prizefighter whose ruthless quest for a shot at the championship title forces him to mortgage his humanity to a Mafia-run boxing syndicate -- plunging him into a whirlpool of deceit, double-dealing -- and death.But when faced with the chance to regain his self-respect, Charley climbs into the ring one last time -- in an unforgettable climactic fight scene shot by two-time Oscar-winner James Wong Howe.Widely regarded as one of the best boxing stories ever made, Body And Soul boasts a strong supporting cast, an Oscar®-nominated screenplay by Abraham Polonsky and a 1947 Academy Award® for Best Editing.