I""d have to find some way of earning a living, to begin with.I suddenly realized how much I""d grown to depend on her.All hese expensive tastes I""d acquired while I was at the top.Now, big tennis had finished with me and so, apparently, had my wife.I can""t ever remember beingso scared.I dropped into a pub and had a couple of drinks.As I sat in the corner, I thought of all sorts of things.I thought of three different ways of killing him.I even thought of killing her.That seemed a far more sensible idea.And just as I was working out how I could do it, I suddenly saw something which completely changed my mind.It was his sixteenth (out of twenty-eight) sound film - this time directed by Norman McLeod (director for he Marx Bros." He knocks Reeves down to the mat.Flashbulbs explode and clink and the crowd erupts.With a couple more "hard lefts," La Motta pummels him hard and knocks down his unprotected opponent a second time - and then again a third time in a comeback attempt in he final round.The violence and brutality of their treatment in a series of matter-of-fact (and horrific) incidents is indelibly and brilliantly orchestrated.