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Overview

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Director:
Ted Kotcheff
Writers:
Peter Gent (novel)
Peter Gent (screenplay)
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Release Date:
3 August 1979 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Sport more
Tagline:
"Wait till you see the weird part." [USA Theatrical] more
Plot:
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s. more | add synopsis
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Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Nick Nolte ... Phillip Elliott
Mac Davis ... Seth Maxwell
Charles Durning ... Coach Johnson
Dayle Haddon ... Charlotte Caulder
Bo Svenson ... Jo Bob Priddy
John Matuszak ... O. W. Shaddock
Steve Forrest ... Conrad Hunter
G.D. Spradlin ... B. A. Strothers

Dabney Coleman ... Emmett Hunter

Savannah Smith Boucher ... Joanne Rodney (as Savannah Smith)
Marshall Colt ... Art Hartman
Guich Koock ... Eddie Rand

Deborah Benson ... Mrs. Hartman
Jim Boeke ... Stallings (as James F. Boeke)
John Bottoms ... Vip
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Additional Details

Runtime:
119 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

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Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: There are several lip-synch problems throughout, probably due to re-dubbing lines. more
Quotes:
Maxwell: Drake, now, takes out a bunch of those fake dicks. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Cheech & Chong's Next Movie (1980) more

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North Dallas Forty, 27 May 1999
Author: Tim Cox from Marietta, OH

Gritty, realistic look at the win-at-all-cost business of pro football. Nolte is especially engaging as an over the hill wide receiver who rebels against goading coach G.D. Spradlin. Davis, Svenson and Charles Durning all add fine support to this very real story.

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