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Bookmark this pageAll the Marbles (1981)
Director: Robert Aldrich
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From Time Out Film Guide
Aldrich's last film, a sad summation of his attempts to gauge his contemporary audience, turns out an intermittently hilarious but generally compromised mix of '50s introspection and '70s grand-standing (last pulled off coherently in The Mean Machine). With Falk as manager of a female tag wrestling duo, graduating via broad road movie conventions from the steel town small halls to the MGM Grand Hotel in Reno for a championship bout, it slips in and out of styles and stylisations as if trying on each for size or for laughs, maintaining a tenuous integrity only through its director's self-deprecating self-consciousness.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Aldrich
Producer: William Aldrich
Cast: Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young, Tracy Reed, Claudette Nevins, Ursaline Bryant-King full cast
Duration: 113 mins
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