Foy Harris (John Gallaudet) is a bootlegger selling illegal booze and also running a girl's professional softball team and is romancing the team's catcher Sue Collins (Rita Hayworth). The murder of one of the team members gets a police detective, Lieutenant Flannigan (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams and Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley) a dim-witted, cub newspaper sports reporter involved.
Look, if you’re hoping for some lost masterpiece, keep moving. Girls Can Play is only worth your time if you love dusty 1930s B-movies, or if you’re a Rita Hayworth completionist who needs to see literally everything she ever touched. 🍿 Anyone expecting an actual sports movie or something with the artistic weight of ...
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"Look, if you’re hoping for some lost masterpiece, keep moving. Girls Can Play is only worth your time if you love dusty 1930s B-movies, or if you’re a Rita Hayworth completionist who needs to see literally everything she ever touched. 🍿 Anyone expecting an actual sports movie or something with the artistic weight of Morocco will probably turn this off after ten minutes. But for those of us who find comfort in cheap, fast-talking crime flicks, it is a fun little relic. The World's Weirdest Fro..."
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