Raging Bull - about to be re-released - is 27 years old now, and it is as magnificent, as mysterious and murky as ever. There is one great omission, and there are those in America who will not be surprised to discover that he was the black boxer in the division: Sugar Ray Robinson. Raging Bull and Robert De Niro made Jake La Motta the most hallowed and tragic boxer in the movies - apart perhaps from Terry Malloy, who was past it by the time of On the Waterfront, looking like a middleweight who began to hit the pastries. In Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) - a much-admired film once - Paul Newman played rough-and-ready Rocky Graziano, who won his title from Tony Zale.
The French champ, Marcel Cerdan, turns up in La Vie en Rose, as well as in Claude Lelouch's Edith and Marcel from 1983, where Cerdan's own son played the boxer in love with Edith Piaf.
T he movies seem to have thoroughly covered boxing's 1940s middleweight division.
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