The Main Event (1979)

06/22/1979 1h 52m

A Glove Story

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Overview

Hillary Kramer, a successful Perfume magnate, awakes one morning to find that her accountant has robbed her blind and left for South America. Going through all of her remaining assets she finds a boxer, purchased as a tax write-off. She decides to take Kid Natural, Eddie Scanlon, who is much more at home giving driving lessons, into the ring and use him as her key to riches. Eddie thinks this will only get him killed and resists.

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Cast Ages at Release

Barbra Streisand

as Hillary Kramer

Born 04/24/1942, age

Ryan O'Neal

as Eddie "Kid Natural" Scanlon

Born 04/20/1941

Died 12/08/2023, age

Paul Sand

as David

Born 03/05/1935, age

Whitman Mayo

as Percy

Born 11/15/1930

Died 05/22/2001, age

Patti D'Arbanville

as Donna

Born 05/25/1951, age

James Gregory

as Gough

Born 12/23/1911

Died 09/16/2002, age

Earl Boen

as Nose - Kline

Born 08/08/1941

Died 01/05/2023, age

Rory Calhoun

as Fighter In Kid's Camp

Born 08/08/1922

Died 04/28/1999, age

Kristine DeBell

as Lucy

Born 12/10/1954, age

Art Evans

as Fighter

Born 03/27/1942, age

Ernie Hudson

as Killer

Born 12/17/1945, age

John Reilly

as Alan Crane

Born 11/11/1934

Died 01/09/2021, age