64 Day Hero | movie | 1986 | Official Clip - video Dailymotion

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Documentary about the life and career of the 1940s and 1950s boxer Randy Turpin. | dG1fZ3RtZk52Vnp2MlE

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00:00 Here we are.

00:07 And that's it, number 19.

00:09 In this small council house, the formidable widow Turpin,

00:13 Beat short for Beatrice, daughter of an old bare-knuckle fighter

00:16 called Tommy Whitehouse, struggled to bring up her family

00:19 of two daughters and three boxer sons.

00:23 Jackie, Midland Area featherweight champion.

00:28 Dick, British and Empire middleweight champion,

00:32 first black boxer allowed to fight for a British title.

00:35 Baby Randolph, middleweight champion of the world,

00:38 childhood nickname Licker.

00:41 This fearsome trio were christened the Dark Threats to British White Hopes.

00:47 Randolph's father, Lionel Fitzherbert Turpin,

00:49 was the first black man in the Leamington Warwick area.

00:52 He came all the way from British Guiana to fight in the First World War,

00:56 just in time to be gassed on the Somme.

00:59 He died when Randolph was only a few months old.

01:03 This is the birthplace of the champion, eh?

01:05 Well, not the birthplace. He came here when he was four years old.

01:09 This is the place where I first sparred with Randolph in this area.

01:19 There used to be a Dutchman stood there.

01:21 The rain drained behind you.

01:24 I remember the first time I put the gloves on and took one charge at Randolph,

01:28 knocked him over the Dutchman.

01:29 He got up the next minute, I was sat in the rain drain.

01:33 And that was our first attempt at anything together.

01:38 This used to be our board.

01:41 I used to stand here while he threw knives round me.

01:44 I'd stand on here with the door and he would throw knives round me.

01:49 We had a bayonet and I sharpened it to a point.

01:53 One day, my head must have been laid here,

01:56 and he threw the bayonet as it was coming towards my head.

02:00 I ducked and it landed right where my forehead had been.

02:04 Because when I put my head back up, I hit the bayonet with my head,

02:07 so I knew it would have been the end of that.

02:09 What did Randolph say? Sorry?

02:12 Just laugh, going to stand there again. I said, "Not bloody like me."

02:15 He'd been building his body up, you know,

02:21 and he used to bully a lot of the kids then.

02:24 He was always determined to be the boss.

02:26 And from then on, he was, like I said, the king of the castle.

02:31 Always. Nothing ever got on top of him.

02:35 He would kill himself rather than be beat.

64 Day Hero | movie | 1986 | Official Clip

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