Crazylegs

Hokey film in which famed football player Elroy "Crazylegs" Hirsch plays himself in the story of his own life. The tone of the whole thing is that cheesy rah-rah Americana popular in those post-WWII years, but there's something sort of endearing about the film and it goes down easy enough. A large part of that is due to Hirsch himself, who wasn't a professional actor but who exudes a genuine earnestness that's disarming.

The film is full of footage from Hirsch's actual games spliced in amongst the fictional scenes, which probably accounts for the film editing Oscar that Cotton Warburton received for this otherwise obscure movie.

Grade: B.