Body Slam

Body Slam

89 mins | Comedy, Music | Nov. 21, 1986

M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.

Body Slam

89 mins | Comedy, Music | Nov. 21, 1986

Body Slam
M. Harry Smilac is a down-on-his-luck music manager who is having a hard time attracting talent and booking gigs for his band, Kicks (The most recent of the gigs is a Dairy Queen opening!!). When making arrangements for a campaign fund-raiser, he mistakes Rick Roberts, a professional wrestler, for a musician and hires him. At that moment he becomes a wrestling manager and starts to book matches for him and his teammate Tonga Tom. The team is a success, and Harry decides to take his wrestlers and his band on a "Rock n' Wrestling" tour. The tour is a success, and Harry feels what it is like to be a winner again.
IMDb rating 5.2
Producers Hemdale Film Corporation, Musifilm Productions
Original title Body Slam
Directors Hal Needham
Writers Steve Burkow, Shel Lytton

Cast

Dirk Benedict

as M. Harry Smilac

Tanya Roberts

as Candace Vandervagen

Roddy Piper

as Quick Rick Roberts

Louis Albano

as Capt. Lou Murano

Barry Gordon

as Sheldon Brockmeister

Charles Nelson Reilly

as Vic Carson

Billy Barty

as Tim McClusky

John Astin

as Scotty

Sydney Lassick

as Shapiro

John Fujioka

as Mr. Kim

Kellie Martin

as Missy Roberts

M.G. Kelly

as TV Interviewer

Sam Fatu

as Tonga Tom (as The Tonga Kid)

Sione Vailahi

as Axe the Cannibal (as The Barbarian - Sione Vailahi)

Tom Kasat

as Hammer the Cannibal (as Tijoe Khan)

Bruno Sammartino

as Himself

Ric Flair

as Himself

Freddie Blassie

as Himself

Adnan Al Kassie

as Himself

Sanford Clark

as Wheelchair Man

Dennis Fimple

as Elmo

Leslee Bremmer

as Girl in Bikini

Afa Anoa'i

as The Samoans

Sika Anoa'i

as The Samoans

Jay Johnstone

as Himself

Chick Hearn

as Booth Announcer / Himself

Michel Lamarche

as The Mad Russian