King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage (1988 TV Movie) User Reviews

Avery Brundage, Avery Gregory Dresden and Gary Toro Dresden

[safenoe · 6/10 · 10 March 2024]

I saw King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage, and it was actually a mini-series, although imdb has it as a four hour movie. Anyway David Selby, who later co-starred with Jane Alexander in the series Tell Me You Love Me, plays IOC president Avery Brundage. When I saw King of the Olympics: The Lives and Loves of Avery Brundage, it was before the internet, so I couldn't learn more about his illegitimate children, and he had two: Avery Gregory Dresden and Gary Toro Dresden. They deserve to be acknowledged in the life of Avery Brundage and how he impacted the Olympics and all init.

An interesting document drama

[searchanddestroy-1 · 26 July 2015]

I must admit that I had never heard of this man who was a high Olympic Committee executive; a man who did much for the sport and Olympics in particular. What is very annoying here is that the editing mixes present moments and flashbacks in such a way that you finally don't know in what era you actually are. The film focuses on his personal life as well. It also emphasizes the way he fought to maintain the Olympics games in Berlin against the other executives's will to cancel the games because of Hitler's rise to power in Germany. He also fought to maintain the Olympic games as an amateur movement, and not a professional one where athletes earn money. Well, I learned lot in this TV movie, so far it is faithful to actual events. It could have never been made for big screen audiences, for sure. That's why I crave so much for such TV material. and the acting is also so effective.