You can’t avoid spoilers here, just as a heads-up, because if you're talking about the saddest movie endings of all time, it’s kind of necessary to actually dig into the endings, you know? Most of ...

No-one has ever forgotten the hobbling.

In 1979, director Franco Zeffirelli remade a 1931 Oscar-winning film called The Champ, about a washed-up boxer trying to mount a comeback in the ring. Zeffirelli’s version got tepid reviews. The ...