The Prize Fighter (1979)
- Starring:
- Tim Conway, Don Knotts, (more)
- Director(s):
- Michael Preece
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG
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Tim Conway as woeful boxer Bags and Don Knotts as his dim-witted sidekick Shake are out to save a gym and do the impossible in this predictable, cliched comedy from director Michael Preece. The setting is the 1930s and Bags is trying to make it as a boxer. Gangster Mike (Robin Clarke) decides to take advantage of the two losers, so he sets Bags up for a big championship match against a bruiser appropriately nicknamed the Butcher (Michael LaGuardia). At stake is more than the one-sided match, the dull duo's friend "Pop" Morgan (David Wayne) has bet all he has on Bags -- he needs money to save his gym from the clutches of the gangster. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 99 mins
Complete Cast:
- Tim Conway - Bags
- David Wayne - Pop Morgan
- Cisse Cameron - Polly
- Michael LaGuardia - Butcher
- Irwin Keyes - Flower
- Alfred E. Covington - Announcer
- Jerry Campbell - Boxer
- Roy Tatum - Nails
- Charles Franzen - Reporter #1
- Bryan Jones - Andy
- Danny Nelson - Guesser
- Clyde Jones - Boxer
- J. Don Ferguson - Referee #1
- Don Knotts - Shake
- Robin Clarke - Mike
- Mary Ellen O'Neill - Mama
- George Nutting - Timmy
- John Myhers - Doyle
- Dan Fitzgerald - Big John
- Joe Dorsey - Stranger
- Joan Benedict - Dori
- Bill Ash - Towel Man
- Lou Walker - Janitor
- Edith Ivey - Tough Lady
- Ted Henning - Jimmy
- Director(s):
- Michael Preece
- Writer(s):
- Tim Conway, John Myhers
- Producer(s):
- Wanda Dell, Lang Elliott
- Theatrical MPAA Rating:
- PG(Adult Language, Questionable for Children)
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