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The Prize Fighter

  • 1979
  • PG
  • 1h 39min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,6/10
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The Prize Fighter (1979)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA mobster tricks an ex-boxer and his manager to take part in a series of (fixed) fights as part of a scheme to get his hands on an old boxing gym.A mobster tricks an ex-boxer and his manager to take part in a series of (fixed) fights as part of a scheme to get his hands on an old boxing gym.A mobster tricks an ex-boxer and his manager to take part in a series of (fixed) fights as part of a scheme to get his hands on an old boxing gym.

  • Regia
    • Michael Preece
  • Sceneggiatura
    • Tim Conway
    • John Myhers
  • Star
    • Tim Conway
    • Don Knotts
    • David Wayne
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,6/10
    416
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Michael Preece
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Tim Conway
      • John Myhers
    • Star
      • Tim Conway
      • Don Knotts
      • David Wayne
    • 9Recensioni degli utenti
    • 4Recensioni della critica
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    Tim Conway
    Tim Conway
    • Bags Collins
    Don Knotts
    Don Knotts
    • Shake
    David Wayne
    David Wayne
    • Pop Morgan
    Robin Clarke
    • Mike
    Cisse Cameron
    Cisse Cameron
    • Polly
    Mary Ellen O'Neill
    • Mama
    Michael LaGuardia
    • Hans 'The Butcher' Miller
    George Nutting
    • Timmy Anderson
    Irwin Keyes
    Irwin Keyes
    • Flowers
    John Myhers
    • Doyle
    Bill Ash
    • Towel Man
    Joan Benedict Steiger
    • Dori
    • (as Joan Benedict)
    Merle G. Cain
    • Bumper
    Holly Conover
    • Judy
    Fred Covington
    • Ring Announcer
    • (as Alfred E. Covington)
    Bill Crabb
    • Turk
    Kenneth Daniel
    • Stubby
    Mike DeFabis
    • Referee #2
    • Regia
      • Michael Preece
    • Sceneggiatura
      • Tim Conway
      • John Myhers
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    7romeo_saul

    Fun movie

    The Prize Fighter was originally out by the time the film Rocky 2 was out. The first Rocky had been a hit a couple of years earlier. The Prize Fighter was an attempt at comedy of a serious script...Rocky. This film honors Rocky in the manner that Scary Movie does Scream. Great comedians have had to wait in order to have their analytical talent recognized because of the fact that their analysis was way ahead of their era. That was the case for these actors/writers. It's not the only time this has been done. Tom Hanks's and John Candy's The Volunteers did the same for other classic films such as Bridge on the River Kwai. The era in which The Prize Fighter was filmed does not affect the content or message of the film even after thirty years. I give it a seven on a scale of one to ten... It's not a bad film.
    7Hey_Sweden

    It's not how good you are. It's how good you wanna be.

    Tim Conway and Don Knotts once again make a comfortable comedy team, playing a dumb boxer and his goofy manager in a tale set in the 1930s. The two of them are struggling and starving, but catch the attention of young mobster Mike (Robin Clarke, "The Formula"), who uses them as pawns in his scheme to acquire the gym of crusty old trainer Pop Morgan (David Wayne, "Adam's Rib"). Bags (the boxer) participates in a series of fights which he doesn't know are fixed, all on the way to confronting the reigning champion, "The Butcher" (Michael LaGuardia, "Total Recall").

    Filmed on location in Atlanta, this film benefits from the local atmosphere. As far as the comedy content goes, this may not be a prime Conway & Knotts vehicle, but one can certainly do worse. There are enough laughs and good moments to qualify this as pleasant, if not uproarious, fare. There is some hilarity involving Mikes' dotty, senile mother (Mary Ellen O'Neill, "Galaxy of Terror"), but this material seems to exist in a different movie altogether. Conway also concocted the story and wrote the screenplay, with co-star John Myhers ("Willard"), and he and Knotts are in typically fine form. Wayne stands out among the supporting cast, which also consists of Cisse Cameron ("Space Mutiny") as Mikes' mistreated moll, child actor George Nutting (in one of only two movie roles for him) as orphaned kid Timmy, and Irwin Keyes ("House of 1000 Corpses") as Mikes' henchman.

    The Bags method of fighting is certainly good for some laughs. He mostly just runs around trying to avoid the fists of his opponent, until connecting with a supposedly superior right hook which he doesn't know is NOT that effective.

    All in all, a decent comedy, geared towards a family audience and mostly avoiding too much unpleasantness.

    Seven out of 10.
    Wizard-8

    Terribly unfunny boxing comedy

    Tim Conway was very funny on "The Carol Burnett Show", but outside of that show he came across as being very lame. Not just with his "Dorf" videos, but also with his motion pictures. My theory is that he had too much creative control when he was in movies, since often he also took on the role of the screenwriter, this movie being one just example. I had a little hope that there might be some laughs, seeing that Conway's co-star was the great Don Knotts. But Knotts' performance here is very subdued; it's clear that he knows he's in a real turkey. The main problems with the movie are that the script is simply not that funny, and that director Michael Preece seems unable to inject any serious energy to what unfolds on the screen. What results is gag after gag landing with a thud, made worse by a story that is obviously very padded out. Though the movie only runs about 98 minutes long, it feels a lot longer, so much so that it's sometimes agonizing to sit through . It doesn't help that the official DVD release of the movie more often than not has a transfer that resembles a rip of a VHS copy. Hard to believe that this movie did reasonably good business for an independently made production.
    9angelsunchained

    The Prize-Fighter is a Champion

    It's not easy making a comedy about the fistic arts. In the 1940s Danny Kay was successful in "The Kid From Brooklyn", playing a "fighting milkman". It took almost 40 years for another boxing comedy to make an impact, and that was The Prize-Fighter.

    Tim Conway plays Depression Era boxer, Bags Collins. Bags has a perfect fighting record; 20 fights, 20 knockouts.............all losses! A perfect record! Don Knotts plays Shake, the brainy(LOL!) manager of Bags Collins.

    The movie manages to capture the times and is an interesting reflection of the Depression Era. Tim Conway is at his bumbling best when he is in the ring "knocking out" the top three contenders-Irish, Jake Folley and the Grader. The Bags/Grader fight had me rolling in my seat.

    There's an impressive supporting cast and Robin Clarke as "Mike" the mob-boss gives an out-standing Brando impression. The final championship match is well done too.

    The Prize-Fighter is a championship of a comedy.
    7zelley-1

    CONWAY & KNOTTS at their best

    Well, I don't know about other comments, but when I saw the movie in 1979 or 1980, I thought it was a very good little comedy with the shenanigans and slapstick of Knotts & Conway,

    As far as "Boxing" movies or documentaries, it was no "Raging Bull" or "Golden Boy", and it didn't have the real life sadness but redemption of "Ring of Fire - The Emile Griffith Story" or the excellence of "Somebody Up There Likes Me", but it wasn't a drama or true story.

    It was a comedy that was well acted and deserves a three star rating on the entertainment value. Thanks to Tim, Don and the cast & crew for a slice of movie magic.

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      The scene in which Don Knotts' character Shake cracks five eggs into a glass on top of a refrigerator is a spoof of the egg-cracking scene in "Rocky" (1976), during which Rocky Balboa constantly sniffs and exhales. Don Knotts also does this, but in a highly-exaggerated comedic fashion.
    • Citazioni

      Timmy: [catchphrase] Is a bluebird blue?

    • Connessioni
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Carol Burnett/Tim Conway/Robert Easton/Tracee Talavera (1979)
    • Colonne sonore
      'TIL THE END
      Lyrics and Music by Peter Matz

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    • Data di uscita
      • 16 novembre 1979 (Stati Uniti)
    • Paese di origine
      • Stati Uniti
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
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    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Dacula, Georgia, Stati Uniti
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Tri Star Productions
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