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[There are eight boxing match scenes in the film.]Superimposed title card:Jake La Motta 1941(First Fight Scene)According to the voice-over of the fight announcer, middle-weight boxer La Motta is still undefeated.After arriving at the plush cabin with mounted animals on many of the walls, some of them played a drinking game.""Of all things fairest"" sang he poet, ""First among cities and home of the Gods is Golden Rome."" Yet even at the zenith of her pride and power, the Republic lay fatally stricken with the disease called human slavery.Reporter: Yes, sir, but about Colonel Lawrence himself?Allenby: No, no.I didn""t know him well, you know.Reporter: Uh, Mr.Bentley.You must know as much about Colonel Lawrence as anybody does.Bentley: Yes.It was my privilege to know him and to make him known to the world.He was a poet, a scholar, and a mighty warrior.(As he reporter runs off for his next interview, Bentley makes an aside o his companion.)He was also the most shameless exhibitionist since Barnum and Bailey.Another memory from one of the funeral-goers provides he framework for a giant flashback to tell the story of Lawrence""s earlier life:He had some minor function on my staff in Cairo.To her five disembodied foster children around her and suspended in the heavens, she tells a cautionary Bible story about false prophets ("ravening wolves") in sheep""s clothing, while a chorus sings behind her, "Dream, Little One, Dream":Now, you remember children how I told you last Sunday about the good Lord going up into the mountain and talking to the people.