A Glove Story
Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.
Barbra Streisand Ryan O'Neal Paul Sand Whitman Mayo Patti D'Arbanville Chu Chu Malave Richard Lawson James Gregory Richard Altman Seth Banks Lindsay Bloom Earl Boen Roger Bowen Badja Djola Rory Calhoun Sue Casey Alvin Childress Kristine DeBell Al Denava Rene Dijon Shay Duffin Murphy Dunne Art Evans Ron Henriquez Anthony Renya Maurice Sneed Lee Harman Vic Heutschy Ernie Hudson David Ketchum Jimmy Lennon Sr. Len Lesser Eddie 'El Annimal' Lopez Gilda Marx Denver Mattson Bill Phillips Murry Brent Musburger Robert Nadder Harvey Parry John Reilly Tim Rossovich Jack Somack Richard Steele Karen Hale Wookey Darrell Zwerling Dennis Falt Luther Fear Ralph Gambina Raven Grey Eagle Jack Griffin Roslyn Kind Monty O'Grady Leoda Richards Rick Sawaya Jack Slate
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