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"No defense could zero in on Jim Brown with Ernie Davis in the backfield ... where he was nicknamed the "Elmira Express" and drew attention from some of the top colleges in the country.
Shaquille O'Neal and his Phoenix Suns teammates rent a theater at Carousel Center to watch "The Express ... a little duped by the movie, and wonders what Ernie Davis would say.
The new film "The Express" - about Syracuse running back Ernie Davis - holds special importance ... screening of "The Express." The Star's movies editor, Robert W. Butler, spoke with Gray.
And it's certainly not a story about the happily ever after. Ernie Davis' story is one that was not well-known to me before this movie came onto the scene. As a lifelong sports fan, it was ...
The Express is a must-see movie, regardless of whether you’re a football fan. This is the one I have been waiting for… The Express: The Story of Ernie Davis. Gary Fleder (Runaway Jury) directs this ...
I can't even get the words to think about it." The movie is based on the 1983 biography "Ernie Davis: The Elmira Express," by Robert C. Gallagher. Davis is played by Rob Brown, who bears an ...
It is the true story of Ernie Davis and it was recently made into a moving Hollywood movie, The Express—just released on DVD. It is a great story of struggle, racism, relationships, extreme ...
Crowdpleasing and oh-so-predictable, “The Express” is a muscular movie with social conscience that portrays Ernie Davis — the first African-American collegian to win college football’s ...
"The Express," a biopic about Davis that opens Friday ... him when she got remarried -- when Ernie was 12. His grandparents, who dote on him in the movie, did dote on him in real life.
And in "The Express," the new movie about Syracuse University's Ernie Davis -- who was signed by the Browns but tragically never played for them -- fiction creeps in, too. For instance ...
In "The Express," Rob Brown stars as Syracuse University's Ernie Davis, the first African American ... he had no problem playing football for the movie - he was a wide receiver at Amherst College.
This biopic focuses on the relationship of Ernie Davis (1939-1963), a gifted African-American athlete, and his coach from 1958 to 1962 at Syracuse University, Ben Schwartzwalder (1909-1993).