OT - basketball movies

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Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

One movie I bet you guys have never seen (I have it on DVD) is "The Basketball Fix". Made in 1951, it stars John Ireland and a young Marshall Thompson..

Seen it! I think it was in the cheapo DVD bin at Wal-Mart. It is tremendous, the Reefer Madness of sports films

http://www.imdb.com/rg/action-box-ti...1008/tt0043320

Has several elements essential to good basketball films

--Gangsters with wide-brimmed hats who hang out in bars where even the rummies wear suits

--Someone in the first three names in the credits works for a newspaper

--Someone in the last three names in the credits is a naive, trusting, really annoying younger brother

--two-hand set shots aimed at plywood-box backboards

--the lane is narrower than the free throw circle

--the girl's life runs a full circle from being more important than gamblers, to being less important than gamblers to being more important than gamblers

--arrests are made during a crucial tournament game. In this film, I believe the officials used the proper IAABO mechanic to indicate player disqualified due to being hauled off to the pokey (violation signal, then hands upright, eight fingers in front of face to simulate jail cell)