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Titolo originale: Tough Enough
Regia: Richard Fleischer |
Anno: 1983
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Azione Dramma Romance
Tag: sports | boxer | singer | boxer hero |
Cast: Dennis Quaid | Carlene Watkins | Stan Shaw | Pam Grier | Warren Oates | Bruce McGill | Wilford Brimley | Fran Ryan | Christopher Norris | Terra Perry | Big John Hamilton | Steve Ward | Susan Benn | Mark Edson | Steve 'Monk' Miller | Jimmy Nickerson | Rod Kieschnick | Preston Salisbury | Darryl Poafpybitty | Tino Zaragoza | Doug Lord | Bob Watson | Jackie Kallen | Michael Brown | Darlene O'Hara | Domenico Seminara | John McKee | Paul Heckmann | Lyle Kanouse | Pat Reilly | John Hyden | Charles Griffin | Ernest Lee Smith | Eli Cummins | Murray Sutherland | Tody Smith | Bennie Moore |

Art Long (Quaid) vive come può cantando musica country, che lui stesso compone, in piccoli locali di provincia. Quel che guadagna però non basta a mantenere la moglie Caroline e il figlio, tanto che è costretto a cambiare mestiere. Abbracciata la carriera di pugile diventa famoso col nome di Country Western Warrior.

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Actress Carlene Watkins played a character, Caroline Long, who had a similar first name to her own. D
The film's closing credits declare that: "The Producer gratefully acknowledges the invaluable assist [...] D
Final feature film of actor Warren Oates. The picture was released posthumously. D
This movie, the last film of actor Warren Oates was actually filmed before Oates' penultimate pictur [...] D
The name of the boxing contest was "The Toughman Contest" or "The Toughman Competition". It represen [...] D
Dennis Quaid's lead central character, the singer tough-man fighter Art Long, had the same first nam [...] D
Part of a cycle of ring fighter movies, mostly boxing, some wrestling, initiated by the box-office a [...] D
The nickname of boxer Paul Thomas Coolidge (Stan Shaw) was "P.T" whilst the nick-name / stage-name o [...] D
Director Richard Fleischer replaced John Leone when the president of American Cinema Productions, An [...] D
Star Dennis Quaid once said of this film: "The movie is about courage. Not the kind of courage it ta [...] D
Dennis Quaid broke his nose during the making of this film, as he had done three years previously on [...] D
The value of the prize-winning stakes for the local fight was US $5,000 whilst the amount for the bi [...] D
Susan Benn's debut. D
Publicity for this picture in slogans memorably boasted that the movie was "Rocky (1976) Without Rul [...] D
This was Carlene Watkins's only film. D
Some movie posters for this film upon release declared that this picture was (at least at the time) [...] D
Some promotional title logos featured an animated "Tough Enough" wording with a pair of gloves hangi [...] D
Dennis Quaid sings in this movie as he had done in the then recent picture La notte in cui si spense [...] D
Star Billing: Dennis Quaid (1st), Stan Shaw (2nd), Carlene Watkins (3rd), Pam Grier (4th) and Warren [...] D
Top billed lead actor and star Dennis Quaid sang and performed two songs on the movie's soundtrack t [...] D
Unusually, director Richard Fleischer was billed as "Richard O. Fleischer", the first time since his [...] D
The picture's plot was reminiscent of Rouben Mamoulian's 1939 film of Clifford Odets's play Passione [...] D
The real life "Toughman Contest" was, according to Wikipedia, "founded in 1979 in Bay City, Michigan [...] D
Dennis Quaid had himself in real life been an amateur boxer for eight years. D

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