***SPOILERS*** 1940's and 50's Hollywood hunk Victor Mature plays star football quarterback Peter Wilson of the New York Cheifs, who are actually played by the Los Anegles Rams, who at the height of his professional football career finds out from cardiologist Dr.Franklin, Jim Backes,that his ticker or heart is in danger of conking out at any given moment! Especially when he's on the gridiron pitching passes to his Chief teammates! It seems Dr.Franklin tells him that Pete suffered from a bout rheumatic fever as a child that damaged his heart and it's now finally catching up with him! Keeping all this secret Pete continues to play football but his performance is anything then what it used to be with him avoiding physical contact at all costs.
It's the Chief's coach Lenahan,Llyod Noland, who finally benches Pete due to his poor performance but it's his daughter and personal secretary Anne Lehahan Lucille Ball, who finds out what Pete's real problem is and tries to get him to quit football. That's before he ends up dead of a heart attack like her former good for nothing alcoholic husband did. Anne has taken a strong liking to Pete and would like nothing better for him to tie the knot with her but there's one's big problem in all that! Pete's social climbing wife the sexy husky voiced Liza, Lizabeth Scott, who's self absorbed in her career as a interior designer. Liza has secretly, behind Pete's back, hooked up with multi millionaire as well as dirty old man Art Baker, Howard Vollmer. It's looking for action Baker who's just stinging Liza along in helping her career in interior design until he uses her up and finds someone younger & better to replace Liza with!
Victor Mature who's not really known for his acting, he once told a reporter that he can't act and stared in over 60 films to prove it, is really good as the fatalistic Pete Wilson who's literally playing his heart out on the football field knowing that any moment it would give out on him. Pete also has to deal with his wife Liza whom he knows would drop him as soon as she finds out that his heart condition would end up making him a has been and put him as well as her out of the spotlight that she craves so much!
***SPOILERS**** Very unconventional ending for a Hollywood movie with Pete finally letting the truth out about his serious heart condition to his both shocked coach and teammates and skipping the big championship game as well as ending his career as a professional football player. We never get know how the game ended but we do know how Pete & his estranged wife Liza got back together again. With Pete or Victor Mature in reviving his "Cave Man" role in "One Million B.C" knocking or slapping some sense into Liza's pretty head in having her drop her big ideas of becoming rich & famous by using him to get her there and just being his wife instead. The wife of a washed up football player and now assistance coach for a non ivy league collage team and for better or for worse genuinely loving him!
It's the Chief's coach Lenahan,Llyod Noland, who finally benches Pete due to his poor performance but it's his daughter and personal secretary Anne Lehahan Lucille Ball, who finds out what Pete's real problem is and tries to get him to quit football. That's before he ends up dead of a heart attack like her former good for nothing alcoholic husband did. Anne has taken a strong liking to Pete and would like nothing better for him to tie the knot with her but there's one's big problem in all that! Pete's social climbing wife the sexy husky voiced Liza, Lizabeth Scott, who's self absorbed in her career as a interior designer. Liza has secretly, behind Pete's back, hooked up with multi millionaire as well as dirty old man Art Baker, Howard Vollmer. It's looking for action Baker who's just stinging Liza along in helping her career in interior design until he uses her up and finds someone younger & better to replace Liza with!
Victor Mature who's not really known for his acting, he once told a reporter that he can't act and stared in over 60 films to prove it, is really good as the fatalistic Pete Wilson who's literally playing his heart out on the football field knowing that any moment it would give out on him. Pete also has to deal with his wife Liza whom he knows would drop him as soon as she finds out that his heart condition would end up making him a has been and put him as well as her out of the spotlight that she craves so much!
***SPOILERS**** Very unconventional ending for a Hollywood movie with Pete finally letting the truth out about his serious heart condition to his both shocked coach and teammates and skipping the big championship game as well as ending his career as a professional football player. We never get know how the game ended but we do know how Pete & his estranged wife Liza got back together again. With Pete or Victor Mature in reviving his "Cave Man" role in "One Million B.C" knocking or slapping some sense into Liza's pretty head in having her drop her big ideas of becoming rich & famous by using him to get her there and just being his wife instead. The wife of a washed up football player and now assistance coach for a non ivy league collage team and for better or for worse genuinely loving him!