Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one–the Indianapolis 500. Read More »
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Kid Nightingale (1939) George Amy, John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. Read More »
Players (1979) Anthony Harvey, Ali MacGraw, Dean Paul Martin, Maximilian Schell
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn’t love. Read More »
The Devils Hairpin (1957) Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Arthur Franz
Cocky car racer Nick Jargin has retired since he nearly caused the death of his brother at a hairpin bend on a circuit. Read More »
Hothead (1979) Jean-Jacques Annaud, Patrick Dewaere, France Dougnac, Dorothée Jemma
François Perrin plays football at the AS Trincamp. During a training session, he gets into a fight with Bertier, the team’s star, and is ordered off the field. Read More »
Hold That Line (1952) William Beaudine, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, John Bromfield
In a precursor to Trading Places (1983), the Bowery Boys are enrolled in a fancy college by a pair of rich snobs who think they can turn the Boys into classy guys. Read More »
The Longest Yard (1974) Robert Aldrich, Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, Ed Lauter
A football player-turned-convict organizes a team of inmates to play against a team of prison guards. Read More »
Knockout (1941) William Clemens, Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela Read More »
Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936) H. Bruce Humberstone, Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sport, Thriller
While steaming from Honolulu to Los Angeles the owner of a prize racehorse headed for the Santa Anita Handicap is killed, apparently kicked to death by his stallion. Read More »
Father Was a Fullback (1949) John M. Stahl, Fred MacMurray, Maureen O’Hara, Betty Lynn, Comedy, Sport
Coach George Copper’s college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup Read More »
Big Leaguer (1953) Robert Aldrich, Edward G. Robinson, Vera-Ellen, Jeff Richards, Drama, Family, Sport
John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract. Read More »
Whiplash (1948) Lewis Seiler, Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A struggling artist becomes a nyc prizefighter in an effort to win the attachment of this ring promoter’s night bar husband. Read More »
Chariots of Fire (1981) Hugh Hudson, Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Nicholas Farrell, Biography, Drama, Sport
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided United Kingdom of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Read More »
East Side, West Side (1927) Allan Dwan, George O’Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Drama, Romance, Sport
Following his mom and stepfather were murdered in a barge crash, John Breen is rescued from a East Side toughs from the Lipvitches. Read More »
The Sporting Club (1971) Larry Peerce, Robert Fields, Nicolas Coster, Margaret Blye, Comedy, Drama, Sport
The new groundskeeper in the Centennial Sporting Club decides to do something about the very strange goings-on there. Read More »