Film · 1945

The Big Show-Off

Name: The Big Show-Off
Director: Howard Bretherton
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Released: 1945-01-22
Rating: 5.3

69 min · Directed by Howard Bretherton

Comedy Drama Music

5.33
ratings

A shy songwriter (Arthur Lake) pretends to be a championship wrestler known as "The Devil" in order to impress a pretty nightclub singer (Dale Evans).

Cast

Arthur Lake

Sanford "Sandy" Elliott

Dale Evans

June Mayfield

Lionel Stander

Joe Bagley

George Meeker

Wally Porter

Paul Hurst

Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler

Sammy Stein

"Boris The Bulgar", a wrestler

Marjorie Manners

Mitzi

Emmett Lynn

Franklin D. Ripbogle Jr.

Douglas Wood

Dr. Dinwiddle

Louis Adlon

Leopold Muckenfuss

Vince Barnett

Voice Student

Harry Depp

G. Whitmore Peabody

Ariel Heath

Goldie

Leo White

Picasso Putschnik

Robert Homans

Police Captain

Milton Kibbee

Slaughterhouse Shannon

A

Anson Weeks

Himself, a bandleader

D

Dan Tobey

Wrestling Announcer

Crew

Director: Howard Bretherton
Producer: Sydney M. Williams
Writer: Richard Weil, László Vadnay
Cinematography: Jack Greenhalgh
Art Direction: Frank Dexter
Costume: Mme. Houda

Details

Studios: Spence-Williams Productions, Republic Pictures
Countries: United States of America
Languages: English
Release: January 22, 1945

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