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Diggstown (1992)

R 08/14/1992 (US) Comedy, Drama 1h 38m

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Where the pros meet the cons.

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Gabriel Caine has just been released from prison when he sets up a bet with a business man. The business man owns most of a boxing-mad town called Diggstown. The bet is that Gabe can find a boxer that will knock out 10 Diggstown men, in a boxing ring, within 24 hours. "Honey" Roy Palmer is that man - although at 48, many say he is too old.

Michael Ritchie

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Leonard Wise

Novel
Steven McKay

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James Woods

Gabriel Caine
Louis Gossett Jr.

"Honey" Roy Palmer
Oliver Platt

Fitz
Heather Graham

Emily Forrester
Randall "Tex" Cobb

Wolf Forrester
Thomas Wilson Brown

Robby Gillon
Bruce Dern

John Gillon
Marshall Bell

Warden Bates
Duane Davis

Hambone Busby
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A review by John Chard

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Written by John Chard on September 19, 2019

Do you know the difference between a hustler and a good con-man?

Diggstown (also known as Midnight Sting) is directed by Michael Ritchie and stars James Woods, Louis Gossett Junior, Bruce Dern, Heather Graham, Oliver Platt, a pre-fame James Caviezel and Randall "Tex" Cobb. The plot sees Woods as con-man Gabriel Caine, recently out of prison he and his cohort Fitz (Platt), set up a boxing "sting" in Diggstown, a hickville place out in Olivair County that is run by egomaniac John Gillon (Dern). The set-up entails Caine's old friend Honey Roy Palmer (Gossett Jr) having to fight, and beat, 10 Di... read the rest.

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