''Swellhead'' is a 1935 American

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directed by

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and starring

Wallace Ford Wallace Ford (born Samuel Grundy Jones; 12 February 1898 – 11 June 1966) was an English-born naturalized American vaudevillian, stage performer and screen actor. Usually playing wise-cracking characters, he combined a tough but friendly-face ...

, Dickie Moore and Barbara Kent.Dick p.239

Synopsis

A cocky

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is forever bragging about his success on the field, and off it with woman. However after he suffers in an accident, his luck seems to have turned against him.

Cast

as Terry McCall * Dickie Moore as Billy Malone * Barbara Kent as Mary Malone * J. Farrell MacDonald as Umpire * Marion Byron as Bessie * Sammy Cohen as Casey Cohen *

Mike Donlin Michael Joseph Donlin (May 30, 1878 – September 24, 1933) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and ac