BBC - Alex Higgins: The People's Champion (2010)
BBC - Alex Higgins: The People's Champion (2010)
HDTV | English | MKV (H264) 25.000 fps 1517 Kbps | 1024x576 | AAC 128 Kbps 44.1 khz | 59mn 16s | 643 MB
Genre: Documentary
HDTV | English | MKV (H264) 25.000 fps 1517 Kbps | 1024x576 | AAC 128 Kbps 44.1 khz | 59mn 16s | 643 MB
Genre: Documentary
One man transfixed television viewers during snooker's golden age - Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins. This poignant documentary charts the remarkable rise and fall of the snooker genius, from his early days growing up in Belfast to his climb to the top of the sport as two-time world champion.
Higgins was pure showbiz, a mercurial talent at the table who played the game like nobody had done before. Boxing had Muhammad Ali, football was blessed by George Best - snooker had Alex Higgins. Yet like Best, Higgins's brilliance was flawed by his demons. We chart the depressing lows - the alcohol abuse, threatening to have fellow Ulsterman Dennis Taylor shot, headbutting a senior member of snooker's hierarchy and falling out of a top floor window and living to tell the tale after a row with his then-girlfriend.
The Higgins story is completed with the final chapter of his life spent battling throat cancer; desperate hours spent in pubs and working men's clubs trying to rekindle his halcyon days; finally unable to eat properly because he'd lost his teeth and in the end, ultimately found dead alone in sheltered accommodation.
At times uplifting, but at other moments very sad - this is a rollercoaster journey charting the life of snooker's 'rock and roll star'.
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BBC - Alex Higgins: The People's Champion (2010)
BBC - Alex Higgins: The People's Champion (2010)
BBC - Alex Higgins: The People's Champion (2010)
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