Kesse Bienen auf der Matte (1981)

Kesse Bienen auf der Matte: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Peter Falk, Vicki Frederick, Laurene Landon, Burt Young. Harry Sears manages The California Dolls, a female wrestling tag team who tour America, hoping for a chance at winning big time. Harry’s also romantically involved with one of them. Their fortunes seem osecondary to him (particularly when Harry accepts an engagement involving mud wrestling!) but then a chance at the big ring match beckons, in Reno, Nevada

“u0026quot;All The Marblesu0026quot; has one major asset: the staging of the wrestling sequences. They are long, appropriately noisy, well-edited and expertly done. But the movie often lags during the fairly pointless scenes that are designed to link together those sequences. The two heroines are very beautiful and also demonstrate considerable acting talent, and Falk adds some bright moments, but the movie still canu0026#39;t shake off a definite u0026quot;low-energyu0026quot; sense in its non-wrestling scenes. Still, this is a u0026quot;mustu0026quot; for fans of the subject, if only because of the rarity of similar movies.”