Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Dirk Benedict | ... | M. Harry Smilac | |
Tanya Roberts | ... | Candace Vandervagen | |
Roddy Piper | ... | Quick Rick Roberts | |
Lou Albano | ... | Captain Lou Murano | |
Barry Gordon | ... | Sheldon Brockmeister | |
Charles Nelson Reilly | ... | Vic Carson | |
Billy Barty | ... | Tim McClusky | |
John Astin | ... | Scotty | |
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Sam Fatu | ... | Tonga Tom (as The Tonga Kid - Sam Fatu) |
Dani Crayne | ... | Bitsy Vandervagen (as Dani Janssen) | |
Sydney Lassick | ... | Shapiro | |
John Fujioka | ... | Mr. Kim | |
Afa Anoai | ... | The Samoans | |
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Sika Anoai | ... | The Samoans |
Kellie Martin | ... | Missy Roberts |
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again. Written by Pat McCurry <ccgrad97@aol.com>
I have seen a majority of Roddy Piper's films and this one I saw long before cable brought tbs and nwa wrestling into my home. I only knew who he was because I had read about him in the wrestling magazines I bought as a kid. Wrestling is like a circus without the animals (at least the real kind lol). I thought the movie was well done for being a low budget film. I was entertained but I have been a Wrestling fan since the days of Bruno Sammartino. I enjoyed the nostalgia of the old school wrestlers and though I am not much of a Dirk Bennedict fan I do remember him from the A Team. The plot made sense and I felt though it was predictable it was still interesting enough to set through more than once. Roddy Piper plays a much more subdued version of his true ring persona and considering he has been wrestling since he was 15 I think he took the bumps well and delivered for his fans. If you hate this film remember a lot of folks grew up watching the pretend sport instead of the drawn out, treat it like a TV show wrestling we see on TV presently. I liked this film much better than the Verne Gagne movie The Wrestler, but it isn't in the same league as the Mickey Rourke film of present day. It examines the wrestlers going after the title much like All The Marbles and leaves you cheering and jeering through out the film.