$1,000 a Touchdown

Watch Movie

$1,000 a Touchdown

1939

1h 13m

2.0(2 votes)

Comedy

Overview

A couple inherits a college and to generate revenue offers a thousand dollars to players for each touchdown they score.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Cast & Crew

52 members

Acting

Joe E. Brown

Marlowe Mansfield Booth

Acting

Martha Raye

Martha Madison

Acting

Eric Blore

Henry

Acting

Susan Hayward

Betty McGlen

Acting

John Hartley

Bill Anders

Acting

Joyce Mathews

Lorelei

Acting

George McKay

Mr. Fishbeck

Acting

Syd Saylor

Bangs

Acting

Tom Dugan

Popcorn Vendor

Acting

Matt McHugh

Brick Benson

Acting

Don Wilson

Announcer

Acting

Gertrude Astor

McGlen Wife (uncredited)

Acting

George Barton

Truck Driver (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Arthur Bernard

Dick (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Linda Brent

Bertie (uncredited)

Acting

Don Evan Brown

Jack (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Fritzi Brunette

McGlen Aunt (uncredited)

Acting

Jack Chapin

Red (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jimmy Conlin

Sheriff (uncredited)

Acting

Maxine Conrad

Sally (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

D'Arcy Corrigan

Cecil (uncredited)

Acting

Dorothy Dayton

Gen (uncredited)

Acting

Paula DeCardo

Dora (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Phil Dunham

McGlen's Second Boy (uncredited)

Acting

Dot Farley

Hysterical Woman (uncredited)

Acting

Edward Gargan

Ironmansky (uncredited)

Acting

Grace Goodall

Nurse (uncredited)

Acting

William Haade

Guard (uncredited)

Acting

John Hart

Buck (uncredited)

Directing

James P. Hogan

Spud (uncredited)

Acting

Judy King

Honey (uncredited)

Acting

Bob Layne

Irish (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Patsy Mace

Ginger (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Wanda McKay

Babe (uncredited)

Acting

Charles Middleton

Stage Manager (uncredited)

Acting

Robert Milasch

Tramp (uncredited)

Acting

Adrian Morris

Two Ton Terry (uncredited)

Acting

Johnnie Morris

Newsboy (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jack Perrin

McGlen's First Boy (uncredited)

Acting

Dewey Robinson

Cab Driver (uncredited)

Acting

Constantine Romanoff

Duke (uncredited)

Acting

Jolly Rowlings

Harry (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Jack Shea

Dimples (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Hugh Sothern

King Richard (uncredited)

Acting

Josef Swickard

Hamilton McGlen Sr. (uncredited)

Acting

Harry Templeton

Hank (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Frank M. Thomas

Dr. Black (uncredited)

Acting

Bill Thompson

Animal Impersonator (uncredited)

Acting

Emmett Vogan

Coach (uncredited)

Acting

Cheryl Walker

Blondie (uncredited)

Acting

Jane Webb

Billie (uncredited)

Acting

Wayne 'Tiny' Whitt

Big Boy (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

5.0

2018

The Falcons

Every year, on a large island just outside of Iceland, there is a huge football tournament for kids. Ten-year-old Jón and his team go to compete, but he will have to grow up faster than expected, both on and off the pitch.

Movie

5.5

1929

Sweetie

Chorus girl Barbara Pell (Nancy Carroll) inherits a school for boys, and uses her position to sabotage the football career of the boy who jilted her.

Movie

5.3

2024

Sweet Dreams

Morris navigates his way through a mandatory stay at Sweet Dreams sober living. In an attempt to get his life back on track, he agrees to coach a misfit softball team of his fellow housemates.

Movie

The Macro Open

A camera crew document four players participating in an underground macro billiards tournament.

Movie

5.4

2024

The Champion

Diego has just been voted best young player in Europe and at the age of 20 he is on his way to making his team, Atlético de Madrid, champions of La Liga. But his impulsive and conflictive character makes the club, fed up with his excesses, hire Álex, a withdrawn and lonely psychology professor, to improve his behaviour. The two will have no choice but to learn to understand each other.

Movie

4.0

1949

Yes Sir, That's My Baby

At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.

Movie

5.2

2001

When Billie Beat Bobby

The historic 1973 tennis match between middle-aged champion Bobby Riggs and young feminist Billie Jean King.

Movie

7.3

2018

Sudani from Nigeria

When a soccer club manager brings one of his injured foreign players home to recuperate, they form an unlikely bond despite their cultural differences.

Movie

5.2

1983

Blue Skies Again

A hard-hitting, fast, sure-handed baseball player tries to break into the sport by applying for a spot on a minor-league team. The only problem is that the player is female, which engenders resistance and resentment among many players and officials.

Movie

4.8

1986

Body Slam

M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.

Movie

2002

Live

A soccer radio commentator pretending to be live must deal with his malfunctioning tv signal. But his signal is not the only one off.

Movie

4.4

1994

Father and Scout

A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.

Movie

1.0

1927

Fast and Furious

When Tom Brown, a wealthy young bachelor with a reckless penchant for speed, wrecks his car in an accident, he is assisted by Mr. Smithfield… When he meets Ethel, Mr. Smithfield's beautiful daughter, Tom falls in love with her at first sight…

Movie

5.0

2009

The Yankles

About Charlie Jones, a washed up, ex major league ballplayer, and how he gets a second chance at life and love by managing a Jewish, orthodox yeshiva baseball team.

Movie

6.0

1949

Father Was a Fullback

Coach George Copper's college football team is losing game after game, much to the dismay of stiff-and-stuffy but influential alumni Roger Jessup, and also having trouble at home with his oldest daughter, Connie. The team keeps losing and Coach Cooper is about to lose his job as his efforts to win the last game of the season, against the team's Big Rival, end in disaster. But, unknown to he and his wife, Elizabeth, Connie has sold an article, called "I Was a Bubble Dancer" to a 'True-Confession" magazine, and the girl-who-couldn't-get-a-date becomes suddenly popular and, because of her, the high-school football star from another town decides to play his college-ball for Coach Cooper. Jessup is forced to keep Cooper on as the school's football coach.

Movie

5.5

1957

The Champion Cyclist

Cleto, a poor newspaper boy, dreamed of becoming a cyclist and inventor. His latest invention is delivering newspapers by rockets. When he finds the owner of the newspaper, dismisses him. But Cleto do not give up and shows Don Macario his latest invention: " The telemirófono ", a device that allows you to see the person talking on the phone...

Movie

6.1

1994

Slam Dunk: The Movie

Sakuragi and the Shohoko team takes on Oda and Takezono High School. This is Sakuragi's second match as he faces Oda, a basketball player who went to the same junior high.

Movie

5.9

1994

Slam Dunk 2: National Tournement

Set during the Inter High Championships, Shohoku take on Tsukubu, one of this year's dark horses. It's a clash of acquaintances as Anzai will face his former student which is now the coach of Tsukubu, while Akagi & Kogure meet Godai their former classmate and Tsukubu's captain. Finally Sakuragi is irked by the presence of Nango, Tsukubu's center, who vies for Haruko's attention.

Movie

6.5

1995

Slam Dunk 3: Crisis of Shohoku School

After losing the titanic match against Kainan High, Team Shohoku and a newly shaven Hanamichi Sakuragi are challenged to an exhibition match by virtual basketball unknowns Ryoukufu High. Coach Anzai sees this as an opportunity for Shohoku to regain their confidence, but Ryoukufu are revealed to have a newly assembled championship calibre lineup and may give Sakuragi & Co their toughest test yet.

Movie

6.3

1995

Slam Dunk 4: Roar!! Basket Man Spirit

Ichiro Mizusawa, a player from Rukawa's old junior high school, Tomigoaka, is diagnosed with a crippling leg condition and wants to play one last game with Rukawa. Hanamichi sets out to help the boy and fulfill his wish.

Movie

Recommended Movies

6.5

2008

The Longshots

The true story of Jasmine Plummer who, at the age of eleven, became the first female to play in Pop Warner football tournament in its 56-year history.

Movie

6.3

2003

Bookies

Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.

Movie

6.2

2013

The Hangover Part III

This time, there's no wedding. No bachelor party. What could go wrong, right? But when the Wolfpack hits the road, all bets are off.

Movie

5.9

1994

Little Big League

When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.

Movie

6.1

2012

Thunderstruck

After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.

Movie

6.2

1981

...All the Marbles

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

Movie

6.2

2006

Comeback Season

First Down. Second Chance. Skylar is a star quarterback of his football team. He's got the skills, the looks, and the girls. His next-door neighbor, Walter is a loving husband, good father and all-round decent family man. When their worlds start to crumble they find themselves in jail together and suddenly these former enemies must rely on each other to rebuild their lives...

Movie

6.3

2000

Coyote Ugly

Graced with a velvet voice, 21-year-old Violet Sanford heads to New York to pursue her dream of becoming a songwriter only to find her aspirations sidelined by the accolades and notoriety she receives at her "day" job as a barmaid at Coyote Ugly. The "Coyotes" as they are affectionately called tantalize customers and the media alike with their outrageous antics, making Coyote Ugly the watering hole for guys on the prowl.

Movie

6.0

1983

Class

Naive Midwestern prep student Jonathan bonds with his more worldly roommate, Skip, who takes the small-town boy under his wing. At Skip's urging, the inexperienced Jonathan is emboldened to seek out older women in the cocktail lounges of nearby Chicago, where he meets and beds the alluring Ellen, who unfortunately turns out to be Skip's mother. The division between the friends is further deepened when a cheating scandal engulfs the school.

Movie

6.2

1993

Rookie of the Year

12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in that arm heals too tightly, allowing Henry to throw pitches that are as fast as 103 mph. Henry is spotted at nearby Wrigley Field by Larry "Fish" Fisher, the general manager of the struggling Chicago Cubs, after Henry throws an opponent's home-run ball all the way from the outfield bleachers back to the catcher, and it seems that Henry may be the pitcher that team owner Bob Carson has been praying for.

Movie

6.2

1994

The Air Up There

Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the chief's son and has responsibilities at home, since the tribe's land is threatened by a mining company with its own hotshot basketball team.

Movie

6.8

2013

Much Ado About Nothing

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.

Movie

7.0

1925

The Freshman

An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.

Movie

7.0

1991

29th Street

After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.

Movie

7.4

2023

Wildflower

The story of Bea Johnson from birth to graduation as she navigates life with an intellectually disabled parent and an extended family who can't quite agree on the best way to help.

Movie

6.0

2005

Two for the Money

A former college athlete joins forces with a sports consultant to handicap football games for high-rolling gamblers.

Movie

6.0

2009

Sorority Wars

Katie, a college freshman, has been groomed from birth to continue her mother’s legacy with the Deltas. When Katie decides to pledge another house instead, an all-out sorority war commences.

Movie

5.8

2012

Small Apartments

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

Movie

7.4

2020

Stargirl

An unassuming high schooler finds himself inexplicably drawn to the free-spirited new girl, whose unconventional ways change how they see themselves…and their world.

Movie

6.7

2021

YES DAY

A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.

Movie