The Prize Fighter (1979)

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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, Rovi

Starring:: Tim Conway, Don Knotts, (more)

Director(s):: Michael Preece

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: PG

Format(s):: DVD
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Synopsis of The Prize Fighter

Theatrical Feature Running Time:: 99 mins

Complete Cast of The Prize Fighter

Tim Conway - Bags
David Wayne - Pop Morgan
Cisse Cameron - Polly
Michael LaGuardia - Butcher
Irwin Keyes - Flower
Alfred E. Covington - Announcer
Jerry Campbell - Boxer
Ted Henning - Jimmy
Lou Walker - Janitor
Charles Franzen - Reporter #1
Bryan Jones - Andy
Danny Nelson - Guesser
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
Clyde Jones - Boxer
Joan Benedict - Dori
Bill Ash - Towel Man
Roy Tatum - Nails
Edith Ivey - Tough Lady

Director(s):: Michael Preece

Writer(s):: John Myhers, Tim Conway

Producer(s):: Lang Elliott, Wanda Dell

Theatrical MPAA Rating:: PG(Questionable for Children, Adult Language)

Categories:: Comedy

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	Doug M.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

BB what Liars! I pay for 3 at a time and it takes them 6 days before they mail it. Turned in on Wednesday at the store and not sent until Tuesday the following week. Then it takes 4 days to arrive. The other company doesn't stall my shipping or give weak excuses.

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	Glen P D.

2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

I love Tim Conway and Don Knotts but this movie is not their high mark. Humorous in spots it loses it's way and just becomes "silly humor". They have done better.