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Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet

Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet is a 1970 short film directed by John D. Hancock. It follows a group of Madison Avenue touch football buffs who are beaten by a teenaged boy and begin to feel their age. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Top Cast

  • Gene Williams

    Gene Williams

    Norm

  • Val Bisoglio

    Val Bisoglio

    Football Player

  • Charles Durning

    Charles Durning

    Football Player

  • Marshall Efron

    Marshall Efron

    Young Man

  • Havelock Hewes

    Havelock Hewes

    Young Man

  • John Lahr

    John Lahr

    Football player with white mouth guard

  • Tom Meehan

    Tom Meehan

  • Rhoda Gemignani

    Rhoda Gemignani

    Mother

  • Carolee Campbell

    Carolee Campbell

    Marian

Overview

Sticky My Fingers ... Fleet My Feet is a 1970 short film directed by John D. Hancock. It follows a group of Madison Avenue touch football buffs who are beaten by a teenaged boy and begin to feel their age. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Rating

6.0 / 10
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1 Reviews

  • CinemaSerf
    CinemaSerf
    5 Jun 22, 2025

    From the title, I thought this was going to about a bit of Dickensian thievery. Instead, it’s a rather dull and repetitious drama about a group of middle-aged American men who routinely chuck a ball about in the park. None of them are exactly in peak position, indeed a few of them are positively plump, but with each as bad as the other it’s friendly and competitive. That is until “Wesley”, the young nephew of one of their number, turns up to play. Now most of them probably have socks older than him, so it’s no great surprise that he can run rings around them without breaking into a sweat. They, on the other hand, struggle - especially when it rains and the ground becomes more of a quagmire. For a few minutes it’s quite a fun exposé on growing old disgracefully, but it - like them - quickly runs out of steam as we end up watching most of their game in real time and that’s just a dull. It’s probably fifteen minutes longer than it needs to be to make it’s point and sustain the joke.

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