...All the Marbles

...All the Marbles (1981)

The California Dolls and their best friend Harry...Together they're going for...All The Marbles

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

Date of release
1981-03-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (62)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Robert Aldrich

Casting

Interesting facts

...All the Marbles is a 1981 American comedy-drama film about the trials and travails of a female wrestling tag team and their manager. It was directed by Robert Aldrich and stars Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick and Laurene Landon, as well as Burt Young. The Pittsburgh Steeler hall of famer "Mean" Joe Greene plays himself.

Production

Aldrich said he wanted to make the film "because nobody's done anything about women's wrestling before."

"It's purely, totally commercial," added Aldrich. "It fits in with my philosophy, which is that the process is at best a craft, not art."

Aldrich says he was brought the story by Mel Frohman "and we stole the whole psychological drive and ending from Abe Polonsky's Body and Soul (1947)", a film on which Aldrich had been an assistant director.

Aldrich said the theme of that movie "was that the biggest damage you can suffer is the loss of self-esteem and a fall from grace. The struggle to regain that esteem will fuel any plot. You don't even have to win." Aldrich says he also stole from Body and Soul for the last act of The Longest Yard.

Aldrich said that "Rocky was Body and Soul except that an Italian fighter wins, and in the original, a Jewish fighter loses. We have here two girls and a manager of questionable credentials. All three have already fallen from grace, and they struggle to redeem their self esteem. Hopefully, it will take two funny hours to happen."

Read on Wikipedia · Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.

Recommended