Movie Movie
Comedy
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.
1978-11-01
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Cast
Director
Stanley Donen
George C. Scott as Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter
Trish Van Devere as Betsy McGuire / Isobel Stuart
Red Buttons as Peanuts / Jinks Murphy
Eli Wallach as Vince Marlow / Pop
Harry Hamlin as Joey Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Ann Reinking as Troubles Moran ("Dynamite Hands")
Jocelyn Brando as Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike
Michael Kidd as "Pop" Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Kathleen Beller as Angie Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Barry Bostwick as Johnny Danko / Dick Cummings
Art Carney as Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers
Barbara Harris as Trixie Lane ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
George P. Wilbur as Tony Norton ("Dynamite Hands")
Charles Lane as Judge / Mr. Pennington
Dick Winslow as Reporter / Tinkle Johnson
Brendan Dillon as Jury Foreman ("Dynamite Hands")
John Hudkins as Hood #1 / Mover #2
Bob Herron as Hood #2 / Mover #1
Jimmy Nickerson as Freddie Fox ("Dynamite Hands")
Harvey Parry as Referee #1 ("Dynamite Hands")
John McKee as Timekeeper ("Dynamite Hands")
Tom Morga as Killer Wales ("Dynamite Hands")
Chuck Hicks as Hood #3 ("Dynamite Hands")
George Fisher as Hood #4 ("Dynamite Hands")
Maidie Norman as Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Barney Martin as Motorcycle Cop ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
George Burns as Himself (uncredited)
Stanley Donen as Nightclub Emcee / Cab Driver (uncredited)