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November 1979 (USA)
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The Prize-Fighter is a Champion
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Tim Conway | ... | Bags |
 | Don Knotts | ... | Shake |
| David Wayne | ... | Pop Morgan |
 | Cisse Cameron | ... | Polly |
| Robin Clarke | ... | Mike |
| Holly Conover | ... | Judy |
| Bill Ash | ... | Towel Man |
| Alfred E. Covington | ... | Ring Announcer |
| Bill Crabb | ... | Turk |
| Kenneth Daniel | ... | Stubby |
| Mike DeFabis | ... | Referee #2 |
| Joe Dorsey | ... | Stranger |
| J. Don Ferguson | ... | Referee #1 |
 | Dan Fitzgerald | ... | Big John |
| Charles Franzen | ... | Reporter #1 |
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'TIL THE END
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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.