Golden Gloves (1961)
1961 documentary directed by Gilles Groulx
- Released
- 1961
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- French
- Genre
- Boxing film
- Director
- Gilles Groulx
- Screenplay
- Jean Le Moyne
- Producer
- Fernand Dansereau, Victor Jobin
- Editing
- Gilles Groulx
- Running time
- 28 minutes
- Production company
- National Film Board of Canada
Golden Gloves is a 1961 Direct Cinema documentary directed by Gilles Groulx about boxers preparing for a Golden Gloves tournament in Montreal. The film is narrated by Claude Jutra.
Golden Gloves focuses on three Montreal boxers in training, exploring their lives and hopes. The 1961 film marked a shift among French-Canadian filmmakers at the NFB away from folkloric films towards works that dealt with contemporary Quebec society.
One of the featured fighters, Black Canadian Ronald Jones, was later cast in a small role in Michel Brault's 1967 drama Entre la mer et l'eau douce. A sequence with Jones and his brother was also used in the 2008 production The Memories of Angels.
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Facts from Wikidata Q5579503 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.