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Overview

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Director:
Vincent McEveety
Writers:
Ted Key (story)
Arthur Alsberg (writer) ...
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Release Date:
7 July 1976 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Family | Sport more
Tagline:
It's the league's leading laugh scorer!
Plot:
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member... more | add synopsis
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Worst sports movie ever more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Edward Asner ... Hank Cooper

Don Knotts ... Coach Venner
Gary Grimes ... Andy Petrovic
Tim Conway ... Crankcase
Louise Williams ... Debbie Kovac (as Liberty Williams)

Dick Van Patten ... Cal Wilson
Ronnie Schell ... Joe Barnsdale

Bob Crane ... Pepper
Johnny Unitas ... Johnny Unitas
Dick Butkus ... Rob Cargil

Harold Gould ... Charles Gwynn
Tom Bosley ... Spinner
Titos Vandis ... Papa Petrovic
Hanna Hertelendy ... Mama Petrovic
Liam Dunn ... Dr. Morgan
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Additional Details

Runtime:
96 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Photophone System)
Certification:
Iceland:L | Australia:G | USA:G | Canada:G (Manitoba/Nova Scotia/Quebec) | Canada:PG (Ontario)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The chase scene playing on the drive-in screen is from Disney's 'Million Dollar Duck, The (1971)', also directed by Vincent McEveety. more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Making a 'Splash' (2004) (V) more

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Worst sports movie ever, 29 January 2009
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Author: historian64 (historian64@hotmail.com) from United States

This is indicative of most 70's Disney fare: it looks more like it was written by a ten year old, rather than for one. It brings up the debate as to who was the bigger jackass: the mule or the executive who gave the green light to this turkey.

Don knots as a football coach is funny enough to carry a sketch, but not of movie. Tom Bosley as a mobster? Bob Crane's character was an all too obvious parody of Howard Cosell,(for those of you too young to remember a longtime ABC sportscaster who spoke in a long-winded monotone and was part of the Monday Night Football broadcast team from 1970 through 1983) Funny given pro football's popularity that nobody's really put out a good film about pro football. (yes that includes Any Given Sunday)

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