Wilt Chamberlain: Borscht Belt Bellhop (2013)

0.0/10 9 min Documentary History

Overview

In 1954, before his senior year of high school, Wilt Chamberlain took a summer job that would change his life, working as a bellhop at Kutsher's Country Club, a Jewish resort in the Catskill Mountains. An unexplored and pivotal chapter in the life of one of basketball's greatest players, and a fascinating glimpse of a time when a very different era of basketball met the Borscht Belt in its heyday.

Cast

Wilt Chamberlain

Self (archive footage)

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