The Louisville Syndicate (Excerpts from William Klein’s Documentary on Muhammad Ali)

One Night in Miami sent your editor back to William Klein’s 1964 documentary, Cassius the Great (which Klein would go on to re-edit later with new footage as Muhammad Ali, The Greatest). The following bits from the movie are way less than a perfect compaction, but the opening scene, which limns the Louisville syndicate that once “owned” Ali, is for the Ages.  B.D. (H/T Jeff Kreines)


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