Touchdown (1931 film)

{{Infobox film

| name = Touchdown!

| image = File:Touchdown! (1931) Movie Poster.jpg

| caption =

| director = Norman Z. McLeod

| producer =

| screenplay = Grover Jones
William Slavens McNutt

| narrator =

| starring = Richard Arlen
Peggy Shannon
Jack Oakie
Regis Toomey

| music = John Leipold

| cinematography = Arthur L. Todd

| distributor = Paramount Publix Corporation

| released = {{Film date|1931}}

| runtime = 79 minutes

| country = United States

| language = English

| budget =

| gross =

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Touchdown is a 1931 American pre-Code football film directed by Norman Z. McLeod and starring Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon, Jack Oakie and Regis Toomey. Jim Thorpe and Herman Brix appear uncredited as unbilled football players.

Plot

Football coach Dan Curtis has to decide how much he wants to win, when one of his players is injured, when he puts in him the game to play, while still recovering from a previous injury.

Veteran coach "Pop" Stewart warns him that winning at all costs isn't worth it; and, he could lose a lot more than a game, including the respect of his old friend Babe; his girl, Mary; and, his player, Paul could lose his life.{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/93703/touchdown|title=Touchdown! (1931) - Overview|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|access-date=August 10, 2015}}

Cast

Richard Arlen as Dan Curtis
Peggy Shannon as Mary Gehring
Jack Oakie as Babe Barton
Regis Toomey as Tom Hussey
George Barbier as Jerome Gehring
J. Farrell MacDonald as Pop Stewart
George Irving as President Baker

Related information

Herman Brix broke his shoulder during filming, Touchdown; and, was unable to play Tarzan, in MGM's screen adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's popular character, in the 1932 film, Tarzan the Ape Man. The injury prevented him from competing in the 1932 Olympics. At the time, he still held the world record for shot put. Swimming champion Johnny Weissmuller replaced him, as Tarzan, and became a major star.{{cite web|url=http://matineeclassics.com/celebrities/actors/bruce_bennett/details|accessdate=July 8, 2013|url-status=usurped|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722063554/http://matineeclassics.com/celebrities/actors/bruce_bennett/details|archivedate=July 22, 2014|title=Matinee Classics}}