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Slap Shot is a 1977 American sports comedy film directed by George Roy Hill, written by Nancy Dowd, and starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. It depicts a minor league ice hockey team that resorts to violent play to gain popularity in a factory town in decline.
The Hanson Brothers are a fictional trio of siblings who played for the fictional minor league ice hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs in the 1977 movie Slap Shot and its two sequels. [1] The characters – Dave , Steve , and Jeff Hanson – were based on real-life siblings Jack , Steve , and Jeff Carlson, who played for the 1974-75 Johnstown ...
Slap Shot (feature film, 1977) - Starring Paul Newman and Michael Ontkean. [1] One of the hockey teams is the (fictional) Syracuse Bulldogs, and parts of the movie were filmed at the Onondaga County War Memorial in downtown Syracuse. [6] [9]
Slap Shot: 1977 Comedy Starring Paul Newman as the player-coach of a rowdy, raunchy minor-league team. The Deadliest Season: 1977 Drama TV film with Michael Moriarty and Meryl Streep about hockey's violence. Ice Castles: 1978 Drama Alexis "Lexie" Winston is a sixteen-year-old girl from Waverly, Iowa who dreams of becoming a champion figure skater.
In a 1977 New York Times interview, Dowd called the new version of the screenplay "terrible." [ 2 ] Her brother Ned Dowd inspired [ 3 ] the story behind Slap Shot based on his experiences playing minor league hockey.
Martin later appeared in another George Roy Hill film, Slap Shot (1977), again with Paul Newman, as the cheap general manager of the Charlestown Chiefs hockey club. He appeared six times each with John Wayne and Paul Newman.
25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden, a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagonist — initially a player-coach, just like Dunlop, Linden also serves as the team's captain.
Ontkean began in Hollywood by guest starring in The Partridge Family in 1971, and had guest roles on such shows as Ironside and Longstreet, but his break was in the ABC series The Rookies (1972–1976), [2] in which he played Officer Willie Gillis for the first two seasons; [citation needed] he left the show and was succeeded by actor Bruce Fairbairn. [7]