One Minute to Play

One Minute to Play (1926)

THE NATION'S IDOL!

"Red" Wade, a star high-school football player, has intentions of going to Claxton College, which has a powerhouse football team, but changes his mind when he meets the sister of the pitiful Paramlee team and goes to college there, just as his father, an alum of the school, had wished. But his father has ordered him not to play football. "Dad" Wade, has offered a $100,000 endowment to his old school, not knowing his son has joined the football team but is going to withdraw it if his son plays in the Big Game against Claxton. This puts "Red" between a rock and a hard place.

Date of release
1926-09-12
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 14m
Genres
Action, Romance
Director
Sam Wood

Casting

Interesting facts

One Minute to Play is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by Sam Wood and written by Byron Morgan. The film stars Red Grange, Mary McAllister, Charles Stanton Ogle, George Wilson, Ben Hendricks Jr., and Lee Shumway. The film was released on September 12, 1926, by Film Booking Offices of America (FBO).

Production

In 1925, as one of college football's biggest names, Red Grange considered entering the acting business in addition to playing professional football. Later in the year, he joined the National Football League's Chicago Bears for a barnstorming tour; between games in December, agent C. C. Pyle showed off a movie check worth $300,000 as a publicity stunt.

Production began in June 1926, an experience Grange described as "the worst drudgery I'd ever experienced." George Wilson, a former Washington Huskies football star who had played against Grange on various occasions during the barnstorming tour, portrayed a Claxton player in the Claxton/Parmalee game.

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