Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.Spoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
Clarence Wilson
- Toastmaster
- (as Clarence H. Wilson)
June Brewster
- Girl at Nightclub
- (uncredited)
George Chandler
- Pullman Ticket Agent
- (uncredited)
William B. Davidson
- Kendricks
- (uncredited)
Phyllis Fraser
- Nightclub Girl
- (uncredited)
Duke Green
- Morrison's Partner
- (uncredited)
Ben Hall
- News Office Boy
- (uncredited)
Theresa Harris
- Nightclub Dancer
- (uncredited)
Jerry Mandy
- Six-Day-Bike-Race Rider
- (uncredited)
Frank Mills
- Coffee Counter Attendant
- (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
- Alumnus
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIvan Linow who plays Sailor Fritz Muller, was a real professional wrestler - turned film actor.
- GoofsAt the six-day bike race, Irene stops at the refreshment stand before going to find Sandy. She gets a box of sandwiches and a large cardboard cup of coffee. (We actually see the coffee going into the cup.) When she finds Sandy, however, the coffee has been transubstantiated into soup - according to Irene, anyhow.
- Quotes
'Shifty' Morrison: Look what you've done to my biscuit grabber!
- SoundtracksCome Stand Up Men
(uncredited)
(Dartmouth Fight Song)
Written by Winsor Wilkinson and Moses Ewing
Played by a band at the Dartmouth-Harvard football game
Sung by men at the banquet
Featured review
Boring Mix of Romance and Sports
The Sport Parade (1932)
** (out of 4)
Boring sport film with a silly love story thrown in. Best friends Sandy (Joel McCrea) and Johnny (William Gargan) go through their college years as football stars at Darmouth but after their playing days they go in separate directions. Johnny gets a legit job at a newspaper while Sandy falls in with a crooked manager who tries to exploit what fame his name carries. Soon the friends are fighting over a girl (Marian Marsh) while Sandy gets into deeper trouble when he gets into wrestling. THE SPORT PARADE might have an attractive cast but this is certainly "C" movie material as the screenplay never gives us much to care about. The entire sports angle really isn't all that interesting because we're simply not given anything we haven't seen countless times before. This material was already boring by 1932 standards so it doesn't help that everything is just one cliché after another. The stock footage used for some of the sports certainly doesn't help and neither does the obvious body double during the wrestling scenes. Another major problem is that the love story is so rushed that it really does seem forced and it's hard to take it very serious. The performances are the one saving grace with McCrea doing a pretty good job in his role and I thought he was really effective during the scenes where his character realizes that he's being taken advantage of. Gargan is good as the best friend and Marsh makes good support as the love interest. We also get a nice performance by Walter Catlett as the agent and we even get Robert Benchley playing a radio announcer. THE SPORT PARADE really doesn't have much going for it so it'll only be of interest to fans of McCrea or those who never realizes that wrestling was staged.
** (out of 4)
Boring sport film with a silly love story thrown in. Best friends Sandy (Joel McCrea) and Johnny (William Gargan) go through their college years as football stars at Darmouth but after their playing days they go in separate directions. Johnny gets a legit job at a newspaper while Sandy falls in with a crooked manager who tries to exploit what fame his name carries. Soon the friends are fighting over a girl (Marian Marsh) while Sandy gets into deeper trouble when he gets into wrestling. THE SPORT PARADE might have an attractive cast but this is certainly "C" movie material as the screenplay never gives us much to care about. The entire sports angle really isn't all that interesting because we're simply not given anything we haven't seen countless times before. This material was already boring by 1932 standards so it doesn't help that everything is just one cliché after another. The stock footage used for some of the sports certainly doesn't help and neither does the obvious body double during the wrestling scenes. Another major problem is that the love story is so rushed that it really does seem forced and it's hard to take it very serious. The performances are the one saving grace with McCrea doing a pretty good job in his role and I thought he was really effective during the scenes where his character realizes that he's being taken advantage of. Gargan is good as the best friend and Marsh makes good support as the love interest. We also get a nice performance by Walter Catlett as the agent and we even get Robert Benchley playing a radio announcer. THE SPORT PARADE really doesn't have much going for it so it'll only be of interest to fans of McCrea or those who never realizes that wrestling was staged.
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- Michael_Elliott
- May 29, 2012
Details
- Release date
- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Free, White and Twenty-One
- Filming locations
- Indianapolis Motor Speedway - 4790 W. 16th Street, Speedway, Indiana, USA(auto racing scenes - archive footage)
- Production company
- See more company credits at IMDbPro
- Runtime1 hour 4 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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