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Mickey Rooney . Nevertheless , Rooney 's popularity was renewed with well-received supporting roles in films such as Requiem for a Heavyweight ( 1962 ) , It 's a Mad , Mad , Mad , Mad World ( 1963 ) , and The Black Stallion ( 1979 ) . Requiem for a Heavyweight was a teleplay written by Rod Serling and produced for the live television show Playhouse 90 on 11 October 1956 . Six years later , it was adapted as a 1962 feature film starring Anthony Quinn , Jackie Gleason and Mickey Rooney . The Black Stallion is a 1979 American film based on the 1941 classic children 's novel The Black Stallion by Walter Farley .