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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.
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")
George P. Wilbur
Tony Norton ("Dynamite Hands")
Charles Lane
Judge / Mr. Pennington
Dick Winslow
Reporter / Tinkle Johnson
Brendan Dillon
Jury Foreman ("Dynamite Hands")
John Hudkins
Hood #1 / Mover #2
Bob Herron
Hood #2 / Mover #1
Jimmy Nickerson
Freddie Fox ("Dynamite Hands")
Harvey Parry
Referee #1 ("Dynamite Hands")
John McKee
Timekeeper ("Dynamite Hands")
Tom Morga
Killer Wales ("Dynamite Hands")
Chuck Hicks
Hood #3 ("Dynamite Hands")
George Fisher
Hood #4 ("Dynamite Hands")
Maidie Norman
Gussie ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Barney Martin
Motorcycle Cop ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
George Burns
Himself (uncredited)
Stanley Donen
Nightclub Emcee / Cab Driver (uncredited)