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The Sports Movies Collection
Alibi Ike
Starring: Joe
E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland
& William Frawley
Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike"
Farrell
comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His
idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything,
drive
his manager and fiancée crazy in this baseball farce.
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April Love
Starring: Pat Boone & Shirley Jones
A potential juvenile delinquent is sent to work on
a Kentucky farm. There he meets the apple-cheeked girl next door and
decides
that mending his ways might be an option. Before long, he is devoting
himself to
the task of training a horse to become a winning trotter. Nominated for
an
Academy Award, the film's title song proved to be one of Pat Boone's
most
durable hits. A musical remake of 1944's “Home in Indiana”.
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The
Babe
Ruth
Story
Starring: William Bendix & Claire Trevor
The famed slugger is
played by Bendix, who resembles Ruth slightly in looks. The film traces
the
"life and times" of Ruth, including his famous "called
shot" in the 1932 World Series.
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A Big Hand for the
Little Lady
Starring: Henry Fonda,
Jason Robbards,
Joanne
Woodward, Burgess Meredith,
Kevin McCarthy
&
Charles Bickford
A naive couple and a child arrive to the town on the way to California to buy there a farm. There is a poker play between the richest men in the region. The man cannot resist it and though he is a very bad poker player, enters the game betting all the money of his family. In the climax of the game he suffers a heart-attack. His wife then takes his place in the table. That's the only way of recovering their savings. But there is a little problem. Can anybody explain her how to play poker?
Big Leaguer
Starring: Edward G. Robinson, Vera
Ellen, Jeff Richards,
Richard Jaeckel & Carl Hubbell
John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the
New
York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to
pick
the best for a minor league contract. They all have dreams and talent,
but the elimination whittles them down to a lucky few who will get the
$150 a month contract. This year John's niece comes down from the home
office in New York and is attracted to tall quiet Adam.
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Body
& Soul
Starring: Jayne Kennedy,
Leon Issac Kennedy,
Perry Lang, Muhammed Ali
& Peter Lawford
The Caddy
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis & Donna
Reed
Eleven
Men & a Girl
Starring: Joe E. Brown, James Hall & Laura Lee
(Also released as “Maybe It’s Love ) When a High-School
football star is refused admission into college based on his rough
reputation,
his father, a wealthy alumnus, withdraws all of his financial support
from the
University. As the University President stands by his guns, the athlete
falls
in love with the President’s daughter. This only strengthens the
President’s
resolve to keep him out of the school. That’s when football star
decides to
change his ways & enters school under a false identity to become
the team’s
leader.
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Elmer the Great
Starring: Joe
E. Brown & Patricia Ellis
Elmer does not want to leave
Gentryville,
because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the
Chicago
Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he
goes.
As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game.
When
Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and
she
wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling
club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that
he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. Sad at
losing Nellie, mad at his teammates and in debt to the gamblers, Elmer
disappears as the Cubs are in the deciding game for the Series.
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Final Shot: The Hank Gathers Story
Starring: Victor Love, Duane Davis, Nell Carter
George Kennedy, Sam Hennings
Terrence Williams
The true life story of two childhood friends who rose out of the ghetto and
became two of the greatest basketball players in college history. Both destined
to play in the NBA, Gathers’ sudden death on the court derails the dream,
and forces his childhood friend to keep the dream alive for both of them.
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Fireman, Save My Child
Starring: Joe
E. Brown, Evalyn Knapp & Lilian Bond
Joe Grant is an inventor,
fireman
and baseball ace in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a
big
game. He hopes to get more money for his inventions. But he is invited
to present his invention to a fire-extinguisher company at the same
time
when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness
of his invention and win the game?
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Flashing Spikes
Starring:John
Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Warden
& Patrick Wayne
An old ballplayer, thrown out
of
baseball due to a bribery scandal, becomes friends with a young phenom.
The younger player is at first tainted by his association with the
oldtimer,
but eventually the truth about the scandal is revealed. This Made For
TV
movie from 1962 is a very rare gem & a true must for an Jimmy
Stewart
Fan!!
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Footlight Serenade
Starring: John
Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature,
Jane Wyman,
James
Gleason & Phil Silvers
Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.
The Freshman
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
& Brooks
Benedict
One of Lloyd’s
best feature-length comedies,features the bespectacled regular guy as
Harold
Lamb, a naïve young man who heads off to college believing campus
life will be
just as it is in the movies; he even learns a little dance he saw one
of his
favorite actors do in a film. However, Harold soon discovers that real
life
isn't all that much like the pictures, and he quickly becomes the
laughing
stock of the university. Determined to prove himself, Harold tries out
for the
football team, but he serves as water boy and rides the pine until he
finally
gets a chance to redeem himself at the big game. Along the way, Harold
also
tries to woo a lovely co-ed, Peggy.
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Going Places
Starring: Dick Powell, Ronald
Reagan,
Anita Louise
& Louis Armstrong
Mr. Mason is a salesman at Detridge & Frome who
wants
to advertise their line of riding clothes. Since they have the rights
to
famous jockey Peter Randall, who is in Australia, Peter will
impersonate
him at the Steeple Chase. At the event, he is invited to a party by
Cora
and sees young Ellen. Since all Ellen and Peter have in common is
horses,
he continues the charade to woo her. But two gamblers named Maxie and
Duke,
try to make money on the race by fixing him up with the wild 'Jeepers
Creepers'.
That horse can jump high and run like the wind, but he will only calm
down
enough to be ridden when Gabriel plays his trumpet.
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A Good Sport
Starring: Lee Remick & Ralph
Waite
A Classic Made for TV Movie. A sports columnist and
a
fashion-magazine editor try to develop a close friendship without
allowing
sex to intrude.
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The Great American Pastime
Starring: Ann Miller, Tom
Ewell, Ann
Francis
& Dean Jones
Bruce Hallerton becomes coach of the
Panthers, a little
league baseball team. The fact, that an attractive widow has her son in
the team causes problems with his wife.
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Home in Indiana
Starring: June Haver, Lon
McCalister,
Walter Brennan,
Ward Bond & Jeanne Crain
A lad with a penchant for trouble is sent to live
with
his aunt and uncle in Indiana. Though he's not happy about the
arrangement
at first, his love of horses and his affection for a young colt that he
plans to race makes life bearable. He also finds romance with tomboyish
Char who shares his love for horses. Wonderful film for lovers of
horses
and racing.
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The Iron
Major
Starring: Pat O'Brien, Ruth Warrick & Robert Ryan
The true saga of WW1
hero-cum-football coach Frank Cavanaugh,. Leaving home and hearth
behind to
serve his country in the Great War, Cavanaugh goes on to lead the
Dartmouth,
Boston College and Fordham football teams to victory. His credo
throughout is
"Love of God, Love of Country, Love of Family"-inspiriational words
indeed in war-torn 1943. Based on the memoirs of Cavanaugh's wife
Florence.
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It Happened in Athens
Starring:
Jayne
Mansfield
This is a frivolous light
hearted
comedy about about Greek farm boy, Trax Colton, who decides to enter
the
first Olympics in 1896. The movie follows his struggles through to his
success. It's amusing to watch the primitive conditions athletes
competed
under back then, and the lack of formality. Real-life Olympic hero Bob
Mathias plays the American captain. A real attraction is Jayne
Mansfield,
who as a beauty promises to marry the winner of the marathon. She
appears
in a number of skimpy, revealing costumes, trying to tempt the virtuous
Colton, to humorous effect.
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The Kid From Left Field
Starring: Dan Dailey, Anne Bancroft,
Lloyd Bridges
& Billy Chapin
Coop's an ex-ballplayer is now a peanut vendor, who
takes
too much of an interest in the game. But he's passed on his craze for
baseball
to his son, Christie. When his dad gets fired, Chris makes friends with
the former team owner's niece (and her boyfriend Pete), and not only
gets
his dad's job back, but a batboy position for himself. With his dad's
help,
Christie begins to make a few suggestions here and there. And as a
publicity
stunt, the team makes him their youngest manager on record. But when
Chris
gets sick, Coop has to come to the rescue.
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Kill The Umpire
Starring: William Bendix & Una
Merkle
Ex-baseball player Bill Johnson, failing at many
jobs
when his ball-playing days are over, reluctantly takes the advice of
his
father-in-law, Jonah Evans, a retired umpire, and enters an
umpire-training
school. Assigned to the Texas League, he does fine until the
championship
play-offs when a riot develops over one of his calls. The involved
player
is knocked unconscious in the proceedings and cannot verify that Bill
made
the correct call. Despite lynch mob plans to at least tar-and-feather
him,
Bill's family, his daughters Lucy and Susan and his wife Betty, help
Bill
reach the ballpark safely the next day through a series of hair-raising
encounters.
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A small-time gambler claims to
be
the father of a girl in order to avoid trouble with the law. The girl
is
thrilled with the idea but the gambler has no use for her until she
shows
amazing skill at picking horse race winners. Somewhere along they way,
they bond with each other.
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Local Boy Makes Good
Starring: Joe E Brown &
Dorothy
Lee
John is a timid student who works at the
University Book
Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the
lovely
Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia
receives
it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track
star,
Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike,
Julia's
boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to
enter
the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good
wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike
still
scares him.
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The Man From Left Field
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Reba McEntire & Joe
Theismann
After taking a job managing a little league team, a
homeless man
inspires the
kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
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Maryland
Starring: John Payne, Walter Brennan & Brenda
Joyce
When a widow, tormented by
the hunting death of her husband, she forbids her son to have anything
to do
with horses. But when her son falls for the daughter of his father's
trainer,
he defies his mother by entering the annual Maryland Hunt.
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The Milky
Way
Starring: Harold Lloyd & Adolphe Mennjou
Timid
milkman, Burleigh Sullivan, somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a
brawl. The
fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a
series of
fixed fights and then have the champ beat him to regain his title.
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Money from Home
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis
& Sheldon Leonard
A down-and-out gambler is given the unsavory task of
fixing
an important steeplechase to pay off his debts. But nothing can ever be
easy for Martin & Lewis.
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Navy Blue & Gold
Starring: Jimmy Stewart, Robert
Young,
Lionel Barrymore & Florence
Rice
Paper
Lion
Starring: Alan Alda, Lauren Hutton, Alex Karras
& Vince Lombardi
The Pride of St. Louis
Starring: Dan Dailey, Joanne
Dru & Richard
Crenna
Pride of the Yankees
Starring: Gary Cooper, Teresa
Wright,
Walter Brennan,
Dan Duryea & Babe Ruth
This Biopic traces the life of Lou Gehrig,
famous baseball
player who played in 2130 consecutive games before falling at age 37 to
ALS, a deadly nerve disease which now bears his name. Gehrig is
followed
from his childhood in New York until his famous 'Luckiest Man' speech
at
his farewell day in 1939.
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The Prizefighter & the
Lady
Starring:
Myrna
Loy & Max Baer
Steve is just a heavy duty
bartender
when Edwin J. Bennett, known as the Professor, starts training him for
the ring. While doing road work, he is almost killed by a speeding car
which crashes into a ditch. In the car is Belle Mercer and her driver.
Steve takes Belle to a farmhouse and is smitten by her, but she is
Willie
Ryan's Girl. The fight is a breeze and later, Steve again meets Belle
with
Willie. That night, Steve and Belle disappear and return married, much
to the disappointment of Ryan. Then Steve starts training in ernest and
is 19 for 19 in the ring. However, he has an eye for the women and an
expanding
ego to match.
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The Return of
October
Starring: Glenn Ford, Terry Moore & James
Gleason
An heiress discovers her racehorse is the reincarnation of her rich
uncle, back to win the Kentucky Derby.
Rookie of the Year
Starring: John
Wayne, Vera Miles, Ward Bond
& Patrick Wayne
A reporter recognizes a hot
young
baseball player as the son of a former famous - and infamous -
ballplayer
who was accused of throwing the World Series. This is a long lost TV
movie
from 1955 & is very rare!! A true must have for any fan of the Duke.
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Six Pack
Starring: Kenny Rogers, Diane Lane
Anthony Michael Hall, Erin Gray
Barry Corbin
Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver
finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been
quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out
to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt
local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for
not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn
charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away
with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to
their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a
name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn't take kindly
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Speed
Starring:
Jimmy
Stewart & Una Merkel
Terry is the chief car tester
for
Emery Motors and Frank is an Engineer. Jane has just been hired to work
in publicity. Frank and Terry both want Jane to be their girl. Terry
has
designed a new carburetor that should bring him fame and money, but he
cannot get it to work correctly. Terry and Gadget have tested it for
over
a year, but it still is not perfected. Emery Motors assigns Frank to
help
Terry with the carburetor, but Terry is not happy because Frank is an
Engineer
and is also vying for Jane. They finish the carburetor, and to test it,
they enter a car in the Indianapolis 500 race. Terry is not yet
satisfied
with the carburetor before the big race even though it has passed all
the
tests.
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Speedy
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Babe Ruth
& Ann Christy
Speedy loses his job as a soda-jerk, then spends the
day
with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and
delivers
Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the
railroad
tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's
grandfather)
out of business, "Speedy" organizes the neighborhood oldtimers to
thwart
their scheme.
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Sporting Blood
Starring: Robert Young, Maureen
O'Sullivan
& Lewis Stone
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner
Davis
Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's
daughter
Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to
discover
that he really loves Linda.
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Sunday
Punch
Starring: Dan Dailey, William Lundigan &
Jean Rogers
The routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece, beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially interested is ex-college boy Ken Burke who is trying to quickly make it to the top, and young brawny Swedish janitor Olaf Jensen who believes Judy will fall for him if he becomes a champion boxer. The rivalry between the two friends leads them to an inevitable meeting in the ring
That’s My Boy
Starring: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ruth Hussey
& Polly
Bergen
They Made Me a Criminal
Starring: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan
& The Dead End Kids
Johnnie is a boxer. The same evening he won the
world
championship, he is charged for the murder of a reporter and is taken
for
dead. Running away from New York, he ends up in a ranch in Arizona, run
by an old lady as a work farm for delinquent teenagers. He falls in
love
with Peggy and became the teenagers' hero. But there is that New York
Detective,
Phelan, that does not believe he is dead and is chasing him
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Too Many Girls
Starring: Lucille Ball, Desi
Arnez,
Richard Carlson
&
Ann Miller
Mr. Casey's daughter Connie wants to go to
the
Pottawatomie
college and he sends without her knowledge four football players as her
bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble, so her bodyguards use
their salary for the college. The football players join the college
team,
and so the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players,
Clint,
falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers, that he is her
bodyguard
she decides to go back to the East, her bodyguards follow her, so the
football
team is very weak for the game next day.
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Top Speed
Starring: Joe E. Brown, Bernice
Clark
& Jack Whiting
In this musical comedy, a bored office
clerk finds much-needed
excitement by masquerading as a millionaire. To do so, he borrows the
speedboat
of his girl friend's father. Slapstick mayhem ensues on the water until
the lad ends up winning the big race. Songs include: "Goodness
Gracious,"
"I'll Know and She'll Know," "Keep Your Undershirt On," "What Would I
Care,"
"Sweeter Than You",”As Long as I Have You and You Have Me", and
"Reaching
For the Moon" .
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Trouble
Along the Way
Starring: John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn,
Marie Windsor & Chuck Connors
Struggling to retain custody of his
daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds
himself
embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is
trying to
bring back to football respectability.
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W.C. Fields: Festival of Shorts
This is a collection of 4 classic shorts starring the legendary W.C. Fields..
The Golf Specialist - At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy.
The Dentist - After preliminaries with ice and golf dentist Fields turns to the problems of his patients. He wrestles one woman all over the office during an extraction. One man is so heavily bearded he can't find the man's mouth and uses as shotgun to flush birds out.
The Fatal Glass of Beer - Mr. Snavely, a Yukon prospector, lost his only son years ago to the temptations of the big city; now the prodigal Chester, released from prison, comes home to Ma and Pa. A parody of Yukon melodrama; includes the famous looking-out-the-door routine.
Pool Sharks - This is Fields' first movie, a one-reeler, it stars Fields performing the pool game routine, which he had performed often in vaudeville.
As an added bonus: trailers to some of Fields’ films
&
an outtake filmed during an actual earthquake in California.
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A Winner Never Quits
Starring: Mare
Winningham, Keith Carradine,
Dennis Weaver & Ed O'Niell
Fact-based story of a young
boy
who lost his right arm in a childhood accident, but went on to fulfill
his dreams of playing major-league baseball. Pete Gray (Keith
Carradine)
had to overcome the early taunts of his childhood playmates. With the
support
of his Pennsylvania coal mining father (Dennis Weaver) and his brother
(Ed O'Neill), who dreams of being a boxer, he learns to battle for what
he wants. Finally in 1943, he is hired to play for a minor league team
- the Memphis Chicks in the Class A Southern Association. Initially
considered
a freak and a box office attraction, he survives the taunts of his
teammates
and bats .333 his rookie year, steals 63 bases and led the league'
outfielders
in fielding percentage. Ultimately he won the league's MVP award. In
1945,
the St. Louis Browns brought him into the major leagues. A parallel
story
is also told about the ball player's friendship with a young boy
(Huckleberry
Fox) who had also lost his arm and dreamed of one day playing baseball.
In fact the idea for the movie came from co-producer James Keach whose
brother had gone to school with the younger boy and became aware of the
events involving the ball player and boy.
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The Winning Team
Starring: Ronald Reagan & Doris Day
You Said
a Mouthful
Starring: Joe E. Brown, Ginger Rogers, Preston Foster
& Guinn Williams
Both Joe E. Brown and Guinn Williams are
named Joe Holt; Brown is a shipping clerk and Williams is a champion
Canadian
swimmer. Socialite Ginger Rogers gets them confused and thinks that
Brown is
the inventor of an unsinkable swim suit and enters him in a 20 mile
swim race.
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