A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.A small-time talent agent discovers an amazing boxing kangaroo and figures to use it as his stepping-stone into the big time.
Shepherd Sanders
- Hood #6
- (as Shep Saunders)
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- TriviaAccording to Elliott Gould, he and co-star Robert Mitchum would share a sandwich (and a joint) every day at lunch.
- GoofsWhen Bernie confronts Kathleen outside her apartment, one dog (the bloodhound) follows her up the steps when she goes back inside. In the next shot, it is back down at the bottom of the steps with Bernie.
- Quotes
[regarding Bernie taking baby kangaroo 'Junior' to the gym]
Kathleen Smith: Bernie, it's inhuman to do that to a baby kangaroo! It's inhuman!
Bernie Bonnelli: Has anyone ever told you that you're always repeating yourself? This is no ordinary kangaroo... Junior's different. Remember who his father was.
- SoundtracksWhen I'm with You, I'm Feelin' Good
Music by Carol Connors
Lyrics by Ernie Shelton
Sung by Pat Boone & Debby Boone
Record Produced by Mike Curb
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This film's problems are numerous and in your face from the get-go. Start with the ridiculous toupee worn by the British former champion who owns Matilda, the boxing kangaroo. Matilda is a guy in a fur suit. He looks less like a real kangaroo than I look like a blue whale. The script and dialogue are pure garbage. But Elliot Gould, who had just done Nashville, The Long Goodbye and A Bridge Too Far and was still considered a star, read the script and thought it was fine, which shows how bad his judgment was. This was the beginning of the end for his career, which was probably inevitable since he was always a talentless hack anyway. To say Gould embarrasses himself here would be an understatement.
I suppose this was intended as a kid's film, but I saw it when I was about 8 years old and I hated it then too. What a piece of crap.
I suppose this was intended as a kid's film, but I saw it when I was about 8 years old and I hated it then too. What a piece of crap.
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