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")
Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man
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The Cheap Detective
1978
Back to the Beach
1987
Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl
1982
Brain Donors
1992
The Patsy
1964
How to Irritate People
1969
The Three Stooges
2012
Chris Rock: Kill the Messenger
2008
The Ladies Man
1961
Thunderstruck
The Slammin' Salmon
Jim Jefferies: Freedumb
2016
Airheads
1994
Oscar
1991
The Ladykillers
2004
Held Up
1999
John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch
2019
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
2025
Top Secret!
1984