Kingpin
An amateur state bowling champion whose professional aspirations are prematurely dashed when he gets "Munsoned" hopes to ride a new bowling prodigy to success and riches by becoming his manager. Roy M…
Kingpin
An amateur state bowling champion whose professional aspirations are prematurely dashed when he gets "Munsoned" hopes to ride a new bowling prodigy to success and riches by becoming his manager. Roy Munson was trained by his father from childhood to be the best bowler in the world. As a teenager, he manages to win the Iowa state amateur championship. Not long after this, Roy becomes a bowling hustler along with his partner Ernie McCracken. They soon go up against a group of ruffians who don't take kindly to being hustled by the pair and exact revenge by damaging Roy's bowling hand so badly that it has to be amputated leaving him with a rubber prosthetic. Being the coward that he is, Ernie runs away as Roy is being abused by the gang. No longer able to bowl as before, Roy becomes a traveling bowling equipment salesman. Eventually, he meets up with an Amish bowling prodigy named Ishmael and takes him under his wing as his manager and trainer. He manages, with difficulty, to convince Ishmael, against his conservative Amish sensibilities, to embark on a professional career. Eventually, they cross paths with Ernie McCracken at a championship bowling event that Ernie is favored to win. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes. Ishmael injures his bowling hand just prior to the big tournament leaving it up to Roy to go up against Ernie at the big event and, hopefully, exact personnel revenge for leaving him to fend for himself against the gang they hustled years earlier. The championship match will determine whether Roy or Ernie is the best bowler. —Jane Byron Dean / edited by Hans Delbruck Roy Munson wins the Iowa amateur state bowling championship in 1979. Unfortunately, soon after he achieving that honor, his bowling hand has to be amputated after he and his partner Ernie McCracken hustle the wrong group of local bowlers and they exact revenge on Roy by severely damaging his hand while Ernie runs away like the coward that he is. Roy's hand is replaced with a rubber prosthetic. No longer able to bowl, he embarks on a career as a traveling bowling implement salesman. One fine day, he encounters an Amish bowling phenomenon named Ishmael and talks him into letting Roy be his manager and trainer. He convinces Ishmael that he can lead him to great success on the professional bowling circuit and that they'll be able to win enough money to save Ishmael's cash-strapped farming family from losing their farm. They have great success as bowling hustlers against amateur competition and eventually enter a winner-take-all pro-am tournament in Las Vegas for a one-million dollar cash prize. Ishmael injures his bowling hand just prior to the competition leaving it up to rubber-handed Roy to go up against tournament favorite Ernie McCracken, Roy's old partner, for the grand prize. Will Roy be up to the task of proving that he is the superior bowler to old friend, and nemesis, Ernie? —Kale Whorton / edited by Hans Delbruck
Kingpin
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An amateur state bowling champion whose professional aspirations are prematurely dashed when he gets "Munsoned" hopes to ride a new bowling prodigy to success and riches by becoming his manager. Roy Munson was trained by his father from childhood to be the best bowler in the world. As a teenager, he manages to win the Iowa state amateur championship.
Not long after this, Roy becomes a bowling hustler along with his partner Ernie McCracken. They soon go up against a group of ruffians who don't take kindly to being hustled by the pair and exact revenge by damaging Roy's bowling hand so badly that it has to be amputated leaving him with a rubber prosthetic. Being the coward that he is, Ernie runs away as Roy is being abused by the gang.
No longer able to bowl as before, Roy becomes a traveling bowling equipment salesman. Eventually, he meets up with an Amish bowling prodigy named Ishmael and takes him under his wing as his manager and trainer. He manages, with difficulty, to convince Ishmael, against his conservative Amish sensibilities, to embark on a professional career.
Eventually, they cross paths with Ernie McCracken at a championship bowling event that Ernie is favored to win. While Roy's career and life have landed in the toilet bowl, Ernie is still drawing huge crowds and all the babes. Ishmael injures his bowling hand just prior to the big tournament leaving it up to Roy to go up against Ernie at the big event and, hopefully, exact personnel revenge for leaving him to fend for himself against the gang they hustled years earlier.
The championship match will determine whether Roy or Ernie is the best bowler. —Jane Byron Dean / edited by Hans Delbruck Roy Munson wins the Iowa amateur state bowling championship in 1979. Unfortunately, soon after he achieving that honor, his bowling hand has to be amputated after he and his partner Ernie McCracken hustle the wrong group of local bowlers and they exact revenge on Roy by severely damaging his hand while Ernie runs away like the coward that he is.
Roy's hand is replaced with a rubber prosthetic. No longer able to bowl, he embarks on a career as a traveling bowling implement salesman. One fine day, he encounters an Amish bowling phenomenon named Ishmael and talks him into letting Roy be his manager and trainer.
He convinces Ishmael that he can lead him to great success on the professional bowling circuit and that they'll be able to win enough money to save Ishmael's cash-strapped farming family from losing their farm. They have great success as bowling hustlers against amateur competition and eventually enter a winner-take-all pro-am tournament in Las Vegas for a one-million dollar cash prize. Ishmael injures his bowling hand just prior to the competition leaving it up to rubber-handed Roy to go up against tournament favorite Ernie McCracken, Roy's old partner, for the grand prize.
Will Roy be up to the task of proving that he is the superior bowler to old friend, and nemesis, Ernie? —Kale Whorton / edited by Hans Delbruck.