The Big Game
Summary:
Future best-selling novelist Irwin Shaw made his screenwriting bow with the modest RKO Radio sports drama The Big Game. The story revolves around the efforts by a group of crooked gamblers to fix the outcomes of college football games. When star quarterback Clark (Philip Huston) refuses to be bribed, the villains kidnap him on the eve of the titular Big Game. Clark is rescued... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Philip Huston - (Clark Jenkins)
James Gleason - (George)
June Travis - (Margaret Anthony)
Bruce Cabot - (Cal Calhoun)
Andy Devine - (Pop)
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Review:
Football movies, for some reason, rarely make compelling viewing and the not so subtly titled The Big Game is no exception. A typical Grade-B production from RKO (who borrowed June Travis from Warners and Bruce Cabot from MGM for the occasion), this little time-filler may have had some topicality in 1936 -- the film's climactic... Continue >>
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