Here Come the Tigers (1978)

User Rating:

2.8/10   

Director:

Sean S. Cunningham

Writer:

Arch McCoy (writer)

Release Date:

14 April 1979 (Japan)

Genre:

Comedy | Sport

Tagline:

It's a whole new ball game!

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Little League | Independent Film

Cast

Kathy Bell	...	Patty O'Malley
Noel Cunningham	...	Noel 'Peanuts' Cady (as Noel John Cunningham)
Sean P. Griffin	...	Art 'The Fart' Bullfinch
Max McClellan	...	Mike 'The Bod' Karpel
Kevin Moore	...	'Eaglescout' Terwilliger
Lance Norwood	...	Ralphy Parks
Ted Oyama	...	Umeki Siddaharo
Michael Pastore	...	Roger 'Fingers' Ross
Xavier Rodrigo	...	Buster / Francis Xavier Rivera
Philip Scuderi	...	Danny Mayfield
David Schmalholz	...	Fritz 'Bionic Mouth' Curtis
Nancy Willis	...	Sharyn Dixon
Andy Weeks	...	'Scoop' Maxwell
Todd Weeks	...	Timmy Deutsch
Richard Lincoln	...	Eddie Burke

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

USA:PG (certificate #25180)

Movie Connections:

Version of The Bad News Bears (1976)

Wes Craven and F.J. Lincoln listed in credits!

Have not watched kids films for some years, so I missed "Here Come the Tigers" when it first came out. (Never even saw "Bad News Bears" even though in the '70s I worked for the guys who arranged financing for that movie, "Warriors," "Man Who Would Be King," and "Rocky Horror Picture Show," among others.) Now I like to check out old or small movies and find people who have gone on to great careers despite being in a less than great movie early on. Just minutes into this movie I could take no more and jumped to the end credits to see if there was a young actor in this movie who had gone on to bigger and better things--at least watching for his/her appearance would create some interest as the plot and acting weren't doing the job. Lo and behold, I spied Wes Craven's name in the credits as an electrical gaffer. He'd already made two or three of his early shockers but had not yet created Freddie Krueger or made the "Scream" movies. Maybe he owed a favor and helped out on this pic. More surprising was Fred J. Lincoln in the cast credits as "Aesop," a wacky character in the movie. F.J. Lincoln, from the '70s to just a few years ago, appeared in and produced adult films. He was associated with the adult spoof "The Ozporns," and just that title is funnier than all of "Tigers" attempts at humor combined. Let the fact that an adult actor was placed in a kids movie be an indication as to how the people making this movie must have been asleep at the wheel.