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Synopsis
The World's Greatest Athlete is a 1973 American sports comedy film directed by Robert Scheerer and starring John Amos, Roscoe Lee Browne, Tim Conway, Dayle Haddon, and Jan-Michael Vincent. Released by Walt Disney Productions, it is one of the few wide-release Hollywood sports films to look at the world of track and field. In the film, two coaches recruit a jungle boy who makes history by winning every event at the NCAA Track & Field Championship. The screenplay was by Dee Caruso and Gerald Gardner who also wrote a novelization of the film. This film was also one of Billy De Wolfe's final roles before he died the following year.
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Credits
- Producer
- Bill Walsh
- Director
- Robert Scheerer
- Screenplay
- Gerald Gardner
- Director of Photography
- Frank V. Phillips
- Original Music Composer
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Editor
- Cotton Warburton
- Country
- United States
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