...All the Marbles

• Peter Falk: Harry Sears
• Vicki Frederick: Iris
• Laurene Landon: Molly
• Burt Young: Eddie Cisco
• Tracy Reed: Diane
• Ursaline Bryant: June
• Claudette Nevins: Solly
• John Hancock: Big John ' Stanley
• Lenny Montana: Jerome
• Charlie Dell: Merle LeFevre

Kesse bees on the mat is an American sports drama from the year 1981. Directed by Robert Aldrich, whose last production should be so. The film is also titled Harry makes the puppets dance known.

Action

Harry Sears is the manager of the two wrestlers Molly and Iris. He toured with them as a tag team of California Dolls Fight to fight through Ohio, to come up with the prize money to make ends meet. The money is always in short supply and so must all three after the won battle in the arena in Akron Akron rumschlagen again with the bare essentials. Here, they never lost the hope that it might be time better. They also withstand time setbacks, such as the, as Eddie Cisco she cheated again a part of the fight purse. After Harry several times on the Mercedes struck with his baseball bat, he calls to another organizer. But Solly dismisses. As money becomes more scarce, dwindling the hopes of improvement, so that there is increasing disputes between the three. Thus, the struggle against the African-American Toledo Tigers comes in handy. Actually, they were engaged in the fight to lose, as the Tigers, however unfair fight, bursting the two women of the collar, so that they defeat this clear. The Tigers swear his revenge, while Iris and Molly enjoy their triumph momentarily. But not for long, for soon is the only job only public mud wrestling left.

Both feel humiliated and are about to chuck it all. However, she read in the newspaper that a world championship match between the two wrestlers Big Mom and superstar is set, in which the winner and the loser receives 25,000 10,000 U.S. dollars. Of course, hope all three to be engaged for the preliminaries. After a fight at the MGM Grand Hotel in Reno, Nevada, would be good for the prestige and would, regardless of the outcome, provide more well-paid fights. So Harry calls again to Solly, assuring him a Wednesday evening battle in Chicago. There it goes again against the Toledo Tigers, losing this time clear and hard blows must plug. The fight in Reno now seems a distant memory. And then also still looms on Cisco, interferes as Sollys partner with in the planning process. Iris goes out with him, thus securing the deal. The struggle again against the Toledo Tigers. The fight purse is $ 10,000, with the winner take all.

The preliminaries will be held as a tag team North American Championship. Cisco and Harry are not clear at all, so that both bet on their respective girls. Cisco buys before the referee Dudley to secure the victory for the Tigers. Meanwhile, Harry makes sure that is spoken that evening about none other than the California Dolls. His posters, T -shirts and trained to cheering children and purchased musicians show their effect. After the football player Joe Greene announcing the fight, the appearance of the California Dolls is so eagerly anticipated that the entire audience cries out for them and prepared for them a sparkling triumphant passage to the ring.

The fight starts with an open slugfest, with the Dolls technically clean and the Tigers struggle with unfair methods. They pierce the Dolls in the eye, pull at their hair and end up several illegal low blows. And the bribed judges while looking away forever. Even as Molly overwhelmed one of the Tigers and waits for the knocking to victory, Dudley denied the victory, so Molly several times even skin from despair to the ground to show that she has the fight actually long won. Then the tide turns, both Molly and Iris be made ​​ready in the struggle and sacrifice lousy beats the Tigers. So Iris is strangled with the knees of the opponent while the referee just trying to keep Molly out of the ring. But Iris creates it with a daring technique that her opponent to referee comes to rest, and it strikes repeatedly at him. The beats are so hard that the referee is to understand Cisco out of the ring to terminate the deal. The following open exchange of blows between the dolls and the Tigers shifted the fight outside the ring, where the Tigers the Dolls attack so that it is almost impossible for them to get back into the ring. The aim of the Tigers is to achieve a disqualification of the Dolls. The Dolls do it but thanks to a surprising maneuver, both return to the ring than to defeat the two Tigers almost. Although the tiger lying motionless on the ring floor and wait for their defeat, Dudley denied the Dolls continues to win. Only when the audience is counting out loud, he has no choice but to award them the win.

Criticism

" Cheeky Bee on the mat transforms the sordid world of professional wrestling woman in a contemporary fairy tale. "

"It's also from Aldrich a brutal ballet, but the consistent absence of vulgar effects not pure voyeuristic pleasure. Memorable than the rousing, brilliant -cut fight scenes are those moments where Aldrich shows with bitter amusement, as this team his resignation, seeks to overcome the loss of self-respect and his emerging doubts with caustic wit and sometimes clumsy gestures of tenderness "

" Entertainment film that unmasks an aligned on sensations meritocracy, trying to beat yourself from human exposure capital. This can be seen behind the perfect, based on common action patterns staging requires distance and judgment. "

Publication

The film opened on October 16, 1981 in U.S. cinemas and was able to import a little more than 6.4 million U.S. dollars. In Germany he started on 28 January 1982 at the movies and is titled Harry can dance on VHS obtained the dolls.