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Director
  
Howard Bretherton

Producer
  
Sydney M. Williams

Language
  
English

5.8/10
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Genre
  
Comedy, Drama, Music

Duration
  

Country
  
USA

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Writer
  
Laszlo Vadnay
,
Richard Weil

Release date
  
22 January 1945

Screenplay
  
Laszlo Vadnay, Richard Weil

Cast
  
Arthur Lake
(Sanford "Sandy" Elliott),
Dale Evans
(June Mayfield),
Lionel Stander
(Joe Bagley),
George Meeker
(Wally Porter),
Paul Hurst
(Herbert Trafagan, aka "The Devil", a wrestler),
Sammy Stein
("Boris The Bulgar", a wrestler)

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The Big Show-Off is a 1945 American comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton and distributed by Republic Pictures. It teams Arthur Lake before his return to the Blondie film series and Dale Evans, most frequently seen with her husband Roy Rogers.

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Plot

Nightclub pianist Sandy Elliott is madly in love with nightclub singer June Mayfield, who ignores his existence, preferring the obnoxious Wally Porter, the nightclub emcee. Sandy follows June to discover to his disgust that she is a big fan of professional wrestling. Sandy's friend Joe the night club owner decides to make the shy Sandy attractive to June by paying a thug to disrupt June's singing, then being thrown out by Sandy. Joe adds fuel to June's new, smoldering love for Sandy by making her promise not to tell a secret: that Sandy is really the masked wrestler known as "The Devil".

Cast

  • Arthur Lake as Sandy Elliott, Shy Pianist
  • Dale Evans as June Mayfield, Night Club Singer
  • Lionel Stander as Joe Bagley, Club Owner
  • George Meeker as Wally Porter, Club MC
  • Paul Hurst as The Devil, Masked Wrestling Champion
  • Marjorie Manners as Mitzi
  • Sammy Stein as Boris the Bulgar, Wrestler
  • Louis Adlon as Muckenfuss
  • Dan Tobey as Wrestling Announcer
  • Douglas Wood as Dr. Dinwiddle
  • Emmett Lynn as Hobo
  • Sherry Cameron as Dancer, Cameron and Kirby Team
  • Klayton Kirby as Dancer, Cameron and Kirby Team
  • Anson Weeks as Orchestra Leader

    • Soundtrack

  • Dale Evans with the Anson Weeks Orchestra - "There's Only One You" (Written by Dale Evans)
  • Dale Evans with the Anson Weeks Orchestra - "Cleo From Rio" (Written by Dave Oppenheim and Roy Ingraham)
  • Sherry Cameron and Klayton Kirby with the Anson Weeks Orchestra - "Memories of Old Vienna"
  • "Hoops My Dear" (Written by Dave Oppenheim)

    • References

    The Big Show-Off Wikipedia
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