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Status
Released
Release
1978
Runtime
1h 48m
Available options inUS
"It's the swellest. It's the cream of the silver screen. It's got buckets of tears and a million laughs."
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
54 Cast Members
George C. Scott
Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter
Trish Van Devere
Betsy McGuire / Isobel Stuart
Red Buttons
Peanuts / Jinks Murphy
Eli Wallach
Vince Marlow / Pop
Harry Hamlin
Joey Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Ann Reinking
Troubles Moran ("Dynamite Hands")
Jocelyn Brando
Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike
Michael Kidd
"Pop" Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Kathleen Beller
Angie Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Barry Bostwick
Johnny Danko / Dick Cummings
Art Carney
Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers
Barbara Harris
Trixie Lane ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Rebecca York
Kitty ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
George P. Wilbur
Tony Norton ("Dynamite Hands")
Clay Hodges
Sailor Lawson ("Dynamite Hands")
Charles Lane
Judge / Mr. Pennington
Peter Stader
Barney Keegle ("Dynamite Hands")
Jimmy Lennon Sr.
The Announcer ("Dynamite Hands")
Dick Winslow
Reporter / Tinkle Johnson
Brendan Dillon
Jury Foreman ("Dynamite Hands")
