The Big Timer

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The Big Timer

"I'm the guy who Okays the dames and Kayoes the Palookas!"

1932

1h 12m

4.6(7 votes)

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Overview

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

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10 featured cast members

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Ben Lyon

Cooky Bradford

Constance Cummings

Honey Baldwin

Thelma Todd

Kay Mitchell

Tom Dugan

Catfish

Robert Emmett O'Connor

Dan Wilson

Charley Grapewin

Pop Baldwin

Russell Hopton

Sullivan

Jack Miller

Scrappy Martin

Irving Bacon

Slim Dugan (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Fight Spectator (uncredited)

Creative team

Directed by: Edward Buzzell
Written by: Robert Riskin
Dorothy Howell

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