The Bands Plays On
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Russell Mack
Casts & Crew
Robert Young
Stuart Erwin
Ted Healy
Preston Foster
Leo Carrillo
Betty Furness
Russell Hardie
William Tannen
Robert Livingston
Norman Phillips Jr.
David Durand
Beaudine Anderson
Betty Jane Graham
Joe Sawyer
Henry Kolker
Harvey Clark
Edward Gargan
Arthur Stuart Hull
John Hyams
John Kelly
Charles Lane
Edward LeSaint
Cyril McLaglen
Franklin Parker
Purnell Pratt
Warner Richmond
Carl Stockdale
Joe Twerp
Arthur Vinton
Bobby Watson
Gayne Whitman
Sidney Miller
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