He was maimed and screamed: "My f--kin"" arm!" Gardner also had a major chest wound and Chris was grazed in the neck.The escapist, musical drama-dance film featured one of the most famous and successful song soundtracks in film history.In the film""s brutal, no-holds-barred look at the gladiatorial sport of boxing in documentary-style, B/W newsreel footage, La Motta unsparingly engages other boxers in the ring in some of the most realistic, visceral, bloody, and brutal yet stylized boxing scenes ever filmed - with sweat and blood spraying out of the ring, devastating blows, and flashing - actually exploding - camera bulbs.This marked the first time that well-known actors were used for voices in an animated film.[Note: The homespun, Will Rogers-like Jiminy Cricket appeared in one other feature film,Fun & Fancy Free (1947), plusThe Mickey Mouse ClubTV show in the mid-to-late 1950s.