The Big Timer is a 1932 American Pre-Code sports drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings and Thelma Todd.Scott p.42 Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it is about a boxer whose success goes to his head.
Plot Cooky Bradford wants to make enough money to buy a lunch wagon. He ends up falling for, and fighting for, boxing manager Pop Baldwin's daughter, Honey.
Cast Ben Lyon as Cooky Bradford Constance Cummings as Honey Baldwin Thelma Todd as Kay Mitchell Tom Dugan as Catfish Robert Emmett O'Connor as Dan Wilson Charley Grapewin as John 'Pop' Baldwin Russell Hopton as Sullivan
See also List of boxing films
References
Bibliography Morgan, Michelle The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd. Chicago Review Press, 2015. Scott, Ian. In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
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