A night of boxing films begins with a classic movie that actually began as a live Golden Age TV drama. The 1962 film version of Requiem shown tonight on TCM stars Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, and Mickey Rooney, and features a small role by a young fighter called Cassius Clay – but six years before that, a brand-new CBS anthology series in its second week on the air, Playhouse 90, presented the premiere of Requiem for a Heavyweight on live TV. It starred Jack Palance, Keenan Wynn, and Ed Wynn, and was written, in one of his early triumphs, by Rod Serling. The TV version, which still exists in a kinescope recording, is vastly superior – but this movie is a knockout, too.