The read
It runs a compact 1h 15m.
Synopsis
Ruthless Coach Gore creates turmoil at a college by hiring players and alienating students. Along the way, the coach loses his wife Claire Gore to a grandstanding player. Inside look at college football of the 1930s replete with fake grades, non-student players, and the importance of football to a college's reputation.
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
13 audience votes
Key crew
- William A. WellmanDirector
- Niven BuschScreenplay
- Manuel SeffScreenplay
- Bernhard KaunOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Dick PowellPhil "Sarge" Sargeant
- Ann DvorakClaire Gore
- Pat O'BrienCoach Gore
- Arthur ByronPhillip Sargent
- Lyle TalbotBuck Weaver
- Hugh HerbertBarnett
- Arthur HohlSeymour Young
- Charles Cahill WilsonCharles Hauser
- Guinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMatthews
- Nat PendletonPetrowski
- Phillip ReedWesterman
- Donald MeekSpencer Trask
Stills
Themes
sportsamerican football coachcollegepre-code