The Big Game

A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.

Cast

Phillip Huston

as Clark Jenkins

June Travis

as Margaret Anthony

James Gleason

as George Scott

Bruce Cabot

as Cal Calhoun

Andy Devine

as Pop Andrews

Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams

as Pete Jenkins

John Arledge

as Spike Adams

C. Henry Gordon

as Brad Anthony

Ward Bond

as Gambler

Dick Elliott

as Lowell

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