Fat City

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Fat City, 1972.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Fat City, 1972.

Sometime fighters Billy (Stacy Keach) and Ernie (Jeff Bridges) discuss love and boxing as they pick walnuts for pay in John Huston's Fat City, 1972, cinematography by Conrad Hall, shot at a farm outside Stockton, California.

Ex-pro Billy (Stacy Keach) and amateur Ernie (Jeff Bridges) size each other up with some sparring when they meet by chance at the Stockton, California YMCA, early in John Huston's Fat City, 1972.

Opening credits for John Huston's acclaimed Fat City, 1972 display an atmospheric Stockton, California and ex-fighter Billy (Stacy Keach) arising to Kris Kristofferson's recording of his composition "Help Me Make it Through the Night."

Ruben (Nicholas Colasanto) is full of wisdom as he delivers Ernie (Jeff Bridges) and the under-age Buford (Wayne Mahan) to their first professional fights in John Huston's Fat City, 1972.