What football movie, starring Nick Nolte, did former Oakland Raider John Matuszak have a role in?
A semi-fictional account of life as a professional Football (American-style) player. Loosely based on the Dallas Cowboys team of the early 1970s. A very savvy, 1978 film directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) dealing with the seamier side of professional football. Phillip Elliott and Maxwell (Nick Nolte and Mac Davis, respectively) are players for a Texas football team loosely based on the championship Dallas Cowboys. Though at the peak of his football career, Elliott is a personal and physical mess, needing all manner of drugs prescribed by the team physician to play and even to move around. The indifference of the team management and the hypocritical stance toward recreational drug use versus the drug abuse practiced by the players leads to a crisis of conscience for Nolte. The combination of Nolte’s volatile presence and Davis’s understated performance as the quarterback who thinks he’s seen it all helps make North Dallas Forty one of the best sports films around. Sources:
North Dallas Forty is a movie starring Nick Nolte as an aging receiver who begins to question the entire pro football culture under which he has thrived and survived. Football player John Matuszak showed he could act and G.D. Spradlin is pitch-perfect as the rigid Dallas coach. Sources: http://www.stltoday.
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