Episodic story in six acts ("The Manly Art in Six Rounds") about young boxer Vic Bealer (played by Jon Voight) in search for some direction in his life.
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| Jon Voight | ... | Vic Bealer | |
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Nancie Phillips | ... | Connie Swooze |
| Art Metrano | ... | Jay David Swooze | |
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Kathy Mahoney | ... | Shereen Bealer |
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Carole Androsky | ... | Rodine Bealer |
| Jeanne Cooper | ... | Nola Bealer | |
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Peggy Cowles | ... | Bett Van Daumee (as Peg Cowles) |
| Robert Hastings | ... | Ariel Van Daumee (as Bob Hastings) | |
| E.J. Peaker | ... | Janelle Sharkey | |
| Ned Glass | ... | Arty Bale | |
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Ray Ballard | ... | Ring Announcer |
| Anne Archer | ... | Drenna Valentine | |
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Ron Burns | ... | Larking |
| Harry Northup | ... | Parker | |
| Rosalind Cash | ... | Poppy | |
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Episodic story in six acts ("The Manly Art in Six Rounds") about young boxer Vic Bealer (played by Jon Voight) in search for some direction in his life. Written by Cristian Redferne <Harlock@prodigy.com>
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24 October 1973 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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This flop was filmed a few years before it was released in 1973. It was made, but was never released until Jon Voight's popularity was soring with Mid-Night Cowboy.
The All-American Boy tries to pass itself off as a boxing film, but the sport is nothing but a backdrop for a symbolic ride of deep interpretations of the mis-use of "beauty" to get by in life.
Voight plays Vic "Bomber" Beasley, a strapping, undefeated amateur boxer, destined for Olympic Gold and a successful career in boxing. Tall, muscular, charming, and handsome, that's Vic, but that's only his physical appearance. Inside he is a heartless, lazy, self-centered user. The Bomber uses an array of women, among them Anne Archer(she looks about 16), E.J. Peaker, and Rosalind Cash. In a "weird" role is veteran character actor Gene Borkan as a gay boxing manager named Arty.
The film seems to want to depict how society falls all over itself to be around "beautiful" people and catering to their every whim, with little in return.
Voight is wooden and lacks any type of emotion, but that what makes him so great. He is void of feeling for anyone except himself. He uses his looks and charm to get what he wants from his family, friends, women, and even other men, gay or straight.
The All-America Boy was a box-office flop. It will be a flop for you unless you read between the lines. An out-standing piece of film-making.