Fabricante de campeones

Fabricante de campeones (1952)

Off Limits

Comedia sobre el mundo del boxeo con célebres cameos como el del campeón Jack Dempsey, quien incluso tuvo su propia biografía en el telefilm Desmpsey (1983), con Treat Williams de protagonista. Herbert Tuttle, un aspirante a boxeador, encuentra al entrenador ideal en Wally Hogan. Hogan acaba de perder a su pupilo, el campeón del mundo Stanley Clements, por culpa de unos gángsteres. Después de someter a Herbert a un duro entrenamiento, lo convencerá para que se enfrente a Clements.

Fecha de estreno
1952-12-30
TMDB
5.9 / 10 (18)
Duración
1 h 29 min
Géneros
Comedia
Director
George Marshall

Reparto

Curiosidades

Off Limits is a 1953 American comedy film directed by George Marshall and starring Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney and Marilyn Maxwell. Hope plays a manager who enlists in the army to keep an eye on his boxer, who has been drafted. The picture was written by Hal Kanter and Jack Sher, and was released in the UK as Military Policemen, as the characters played by Hope and Rooney join the military police.

Production

During the final bar scene, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope's frequent co-star, is seen briefly, singing on the bar's television set.

Alan Young was to co-star with Hope in the picture.

In addition to retired champion boxer Jack Dempsey, the film features Art Aragon, a popular Southern California boxer.

Orchestra leader and vocalist Muzzy Marcellino dubbed "wolf-whistles" for the picture, according to Paramount press information, included in the file on the film at the AMPAS Library.

Publicity also notes that the United States Army Provost Marshal General's office in Washington, D.C. gave Mickey Rooney special permission to depict an MP, even though the minimum height requirement was 5'7" and Rooney was only 5'3".

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