The Gladiator
6.0
“Kicking the pigskin for a skinful of laughs !”
A man returns to college and is talked into joining he football team and is a real joke on the team, until he is given a drug that gives him super strength.
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Cast
6 people
Joe E. Brown
Hugo Kipp
Known for
Some Like It Hot
The Comedy of Terrors
June Travis
Iris Bennett
Also in
Ceiling Zero
The Star
Frank Leavitt
The Wrestler
Also in
Reckless
We're in the Money
Dickie Moore
Bobby
Known for
Out of the Past
Blonde Venus
Lucien Littlefield
Professor Danner
Known for
Sons of the Desert
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Robert Kent
Tom Dixon
Known for
The Country Girl
Edward Sedgwick Director · Arthur Sheekman Screenplay Charlie Melson Screenplay
United States release August 14, 1938 · Produced in United States · Production David L. Loew Productions
Production
Columbia Pictures
Production · Studio
David L. Loew Productions
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · August 14, 1938
Theatrical
Russia
October 28, 1952 · Theatrical
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