The Big Timer is a 1932 American Pre-Code sports drama film directed by Edward Buzzell and starring Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings and Thelma Todd. Produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures, it is about a boxer whose success goes to his head.

Plot

Cooky Bradford wants to make enough money to buy a lunch wagon. He ends up falling for, and fighting for, boxing manager Pop Baldwin's daughter, Honey.

Cast

• Ben Lyon as Cooky Bradford

• Constance Cummings as Honey Baldwin

• Thelma Todd as Kay Mitchell

• Tom Dugan as Catfish

• Robert Emmett O'Connor as Dan Wilson

• Charley Grapewin as John 'Pop' Baldwin

• Russell Hopton as Sullivan

See also

• List of boxing films

References

Bibliography

• Morgan, Michelle The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd. Chicago Review Press, 2015.

• Scott, Ian. In Capra's Shadow: The Life and Career of Screenwriter Robert Riskin. University Press of Kentucky, 2014.

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