LaMotta was an animal a bull in the ring and a pig outside and Scorsese is true to both Jakes. Roger Ebert is not the only critic who thinks Raging Bull is the best film of the 1980s. He finally stumbled into glory when Martin Scorsese made a film of LaMotta’s life in black-and-white, like Body and Soul and Champion with Robert De Niro, at the peak of his feral majesty, in the title role. Within a year of retiring, he was convicted on a morals charge involving a 14-year-old prostitute and made a comeback of sorts as a road-show Rocky Graziano. In his autobiography, Raging Bull, he says he “fought Sugar Ray Robinson so many times I got diabetes.” He played rope-a-dope with the Mob. Jake LaMotta, the Bronx Bull, butted his way to the middleweight championship of boxing in 1949. Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci Get This Movie
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