Movie Movie

Nov 1, 1978

1h 48m

★ 6.0

It's the swellest. It's the cream of the silver screen. It's got buckets of tears and a million laughs.

Overview

Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

ITC Entertainment

Stanley Donen Films

Warner Bros. Pictures

Movie Movie Trailers

Cast

Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter

George C. Scott

Betsy McGuire / Isobel Stuart

Trish Van Devere

Peanuts / Jinks Murphy

Red Buttons

Vince Marlow / Pop

Eli Wallach

Joey Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")

Harry Hamlin

Troubles Moran ("Dynamite Hands")

Ann Reinking

Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike

Jocelyn Brando

"Pop" Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")

Michael Kidd

Angie Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")

Kathleen Beller

Johnny Danko / Dick Cummings

Barry Bostwick

Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers

Art Carney

Trixie Lane ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")

Barbara Harris

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