Monday, May 30, 2022

TYPICAL SPORTS MOVIE OF THE PAST/FUTURE

KNUTE ROCKNE: ALL-AMERICAN (1940)
dir: Lloyd Bacon

TYPICAL SPORTS MOVIE OF THE PAST/FUTURE
Mad #153, September 1972
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Jack Davis

Knute Rockne was a sports bio-pic about rponymous Notre Dame football player (Pat O'Brien) and eventually becomes coach for their Fightin' Irish team. George Gipp (Ronald Reagan) becomes their star player but gets struck with an illness, and as he's dying, tells his coach to “win one for the Gipper”, making the team even more legendary.
The new version is about how the players are all drug-using hippies in it for sex, money, and fame. This story was imitated by Crazy.
Jack Davis was their go-to Howard Cosell artist.
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2 comments:

  1. Chris EkmanMay 30, 2022 at 8:03 AM

    In the second 'Future' half, the coach is Rod Steiger and the star player is Dennis Hopper.

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    1. Chris EkmanJune 3, 2022 at 1:30 PM

      No, wait a minute - I think that's wrong. I trusted the attributions at the GCD, but they're often mistaken. I think the star player is actually Dustin Hoffman; the hair threw me, but he looked just like this in the movie Who Is Harry Kellerman...

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