Wrestling Movies (Classics)
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- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsWinnie LightnerJoe E. BrownPaul GregoryThe managers of a gymnasium/health spa train an office clerk to be a champion wrestler.
- DirectorLewis SeilerStarsLeo CarrilloDickie MooreNat PendletonA modest programmer denotes a young man's rise to fame in wrestling matches he doesn't realize have been "fixed", and ensuing romantic turbulence.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWallace BeeryRicardo CortezKaren MorleyGifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.
- DirectorDudley MurphyStarsJoel McCreaMarian MarshWilliam GarganSpoiled sports hero learns hard lessons.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsJoan BlondellGlenda FarrellHugh HerbertTwo gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsGeorge O'BrienBeatrice RobertsWillard RobertsonMillioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily able to handle the thugs that attack him at the lumber camp. This enables him to stay on the job and he soon undercovers how his father is being cheated by the local boss.
- DirectorRay EnrightStarsHumphrey BogartFrank McHughLouise FazendaPromoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsArthur LakeDale EvansLionel StanderJoe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, masked wrestler known as "The Devil." Wally Porter, also in love with June doesn't believe the story. The real wrestler breaks a leg in a match and Sandy, in order to keep up the ruse now has to wear a cast on his leg. June attends a match and hears the real Devil announce his engagement to another girl.
- DirectorGeorge BlairStarsRobert RockwellBarbra FullerAudrey LongNew York gangsters trying to muscle in on the California wrestling scene come up against a wrestler who won't knuckle under. They frame him for a murder, and his manager and a cop set out to clear his name, catch the real killers and save the reputation of the sport of wrestling.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsRichard WidmarkGene TierneyGoogie WithersA small-time grifter and nightclub tout takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.
- DirectorSeymour FriedmanStarsWillard ParkerLola AlbrightHillary BrookeTommy Jones, a well-built plumber, is invited to join a troupe of professional wrestlers, but is surprised to learn that the sport of exhibition wrestling is not on the up-and-up.
- DirectorRobert C. DertanoStarsPeaches PageTimothy FarrellClara MortensenA money launderer uses women's wrestling as a front for his illegal activities, but earns the enmity of a powerful mobster.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineStarsLeo GorceyHuntz HallMarjorie ReynoldsSach acquires super strength, which the boys attempt to cash in on by turning him into a professional wrestler.
- DirectorJoseph LernerStarsJack CarsonJanis PaigeVince EdwardsA gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter. He wins match after match, legitimately, and then balks when he is told he must lose a match, as all in the phony-sport of professional wrestling must do at one time or another.A complication arises when Tommy can not be taught to be dishonest. Complications also arise when a gangster tries to buy in on the setup. A "comedy" film based on the tragic career of prizefighter Primo Canera.
- DirectorChano UruetaStarsMiroslavaCrox AlvaradoWolf RuvinskisTwo very good friends (Crox Alvarado and Wolf Ruvinskis) become wrestlers to leave poverty behind, but the arrival of an ambitious woman (Miroslava Stern) will tragically change their destinies.
- DirectorRené CardonaStarsLorena VelázquezArmando SilvestreElizabeth CampbellIf you've ever longed for a movie about wrestling women who take on various monsters, this is it. There is Xochitl, a female mummy, and her lover Tezomoc who is also a mummy, and he can turn into a snake or a bat, which is difficult to get half-Nelsons on. Loreta and the Golden Ruby join forces to battle the evil Prince Fujiyata and his Oriental female Judo wrestlers. The mummy Tezomoc is male and on the good side of the struggle (at least he fights the bad guys). The lady wrestlers earlier appeared in "Doctor of Doom."
- DirectorRené CardonaStarsLorena VelázquezElizabeth CampbellMaría Eugenia San MartínLos problemas Íntimos y las maldades de sus amigos los resuelven en el ring.
- DirectorPaolo BianchiniStarsGiovanni CianfrigliaGuy MadisonLuisa BarattoA masked wrestler/superhero goes up against a madman and his army of robots.
- DirectorArturo MartínezStarsGermán RoblesMil MáscarasSuperzanTwo masked wrestlers deal with a vampire by the name of Baron Bradock, who turned their previous opponents into vampires.
- DirectorJames A. WestmanStarsEdward AsnerElaine GiftosVerne GagneFrank Bass takes a stand and defends what he thinks is right. Gamblers and money-grubbing conspire to corrupt the industry. Frank's efforts climax as he promotes an over-the-hill champion in the final matches of his career.
- DirectorsWalter DonigerLen StecklerStarsAlex KarrasSusan AnspachNicholas ColasantoA burly professional wrestler falls in love with a caring woman who helps convince him to abandon his vengeful search for the one who murdered his brother in this drama.
- DirectorCarl ReinerStarsHenry WinklerKim DarbyGene SaksHenry Winkler portrays an outrageously self-confident but out-of-work actor, a young man who dreams of stardom and leaves college to pursue fame and fortune.
- DirectorPaul LynchStarsWilliam SmithMicheline LanctôtHenry BeckmanA young athelete becomes the unlikely star of an itinerant wrestling troupe, and a rival promoter will go to any length to steal him away.
- DirectorSylvester StalloneStarsSylvester StalloneLee CanalitoArmand AssanteThree Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
- DirectorsClyde BruckmanW.C. FieldsStarsW.C. FieldsMary BrianKathleen HowardHard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.