“It's the swellest. It's the cream of the silver screen. It's got buckets of tears and a million laughs.”
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
George C. Scott
Gloves Malloy / Spats Baxter
Trish Van Devere
Betsy McGuire / Isobel Stuart
Red Buttons
Peanuts / Jinks Murphy
Eli Wallach
Vince Marlow / Pop
Harry Hamlin
Joey Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Ann Reinking
Troubles Moran ("Dynamite Hands")
Jocelyn Brando
Mama Popchik / Mrs. Updike
Michael Kidd
"Pop" Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Kathleen Beller
Angie Popchik ("Dynamite Hands")
Barry Bostwick
Johnny Danko / Dick Cummings
Art Carney
Dr. Blaine / Dr. Bowers
Barbara Harris
Trixie Lane ("Baxter's Beauties of 1933")
Repossessed
Popeye
Into the Night
Not Another Teen Movie
The Red Cockatoo
High Society
Blazing Saddles
The King of Comedy
To Be or Not to Be
Kevin Hart: I'm a Grown Little Man
The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash
Let's Make Love
Tel chi el telùn
The Cheap Detective
Dying of Laughter
My Fair Lady
The Muppet Movie
Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm
Department Store
Ziegfeld Follies