Remade in 1978 as Heaven Can Wait, using American football as backdrop instead of boxing.Īrrogant boxer Johnny Rocket ( Arthur Kennedy) has a manipulative manager.
The East Side Kids turn to the boxing ring to help a friend.Ī fighter taken too soon is reincarnated in a new body. James Cagney as a fighter who is blinded in the ring.Ī sportswriter sets out to clean up amateur boxing. Rodeo cowpoke turned pugilist fights for a female sportswriter ( Gloria Stuart).Īn aspiring boxer ( Jimmy Hanley) discovers corruption in the sport.Ī manager ( Pat O'Brien) helps a Hoosier palooka find his mother.Īccused of murder, a boxing champ ( John Garfield) becomes a fugitive. Robinson) turns a young bellhop into boxer Kid Galahad.ĭuke Foster weds a rich girl, then fights to aid her embezzler father.Ī crimefighter and writer both try to solve a murder in a boxing ring.Īccidentally killing a friend in-ring, "Killer" McCoy must save woman he loves.Ī singing waiter punches a customer, becomes a prizefighter.Ī promising violinist ( William Holden) risks his hands by prizefighting. Out on parole, a boxer called "Killer" ends up with most of his opponents dead.Ī fast-rising prizefighter jilts his girlfriend and takes up with a blonde.Ī department store employee ( George Formby) takes up boxing. John Wayne as a con man who loses bareknuckle bouts on purpose.Ī milkman ( Harold Lloyd) who can deliver a punch becomes an overnight sensation. Ritzy McCarty ( Pat O'Brien) wins fixed fights, cheats on wife.Ī meek British man accepts a dare to step into a boxing ring at a fair.
Joe Palooka leaves rural life to follow a trainer ( Jimmy Durante) to the big city. Real-life boxer Max Baer co-stars in a glove story with Myrna Loy.
Washed-up Jimmy Kane ( James Cagney) fights to help a young widow.Ĭooky Bradford ends up fighting for, and falling for, his manager's daughter.Ī boxer framed for a crime fights to pay the debt of the friend who betrayed him.īelieved to be dead, a boxer ( Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) tries to begin a new life.Īfter a boxer ( Jack Oakie) takes a beating, his fellow fighters come to his rescue.Ī British newsboy ends up in a fight contest against a friend. Lightweight contender Kid Mason is betrayed by his scheming wife ( Jean Harlow). Story of a boy's love for a doomed ex-boxer. Brown).Ī tramp ( Charlie Chaplin) accumulates money by boxing to help a flower girl. Georges Carpentier's training is disrupted by an amateur called Gink ( Joe E. Randall Savage floors a boxing champ, then a construction boss to win a girl.Īlfred Hitchcock silent film about a pugilist known as "One-Round Jack."įalsely convicted of a crime, Reilly ( Richard Dix) fights the guy who framed him.Ī father tries to persuade his middleweight-champ son not to take a dive.Ī boxer who makes a living losing fixed matches decides to turn his life around. Silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton.Ī whole town's money is riding on Jimmy O'Day ( Billy Sullivan). To impress a British noblewoman, a man goes to America to put up his dukes.Īfter his father goes broke, a young man ( Reginald Denny) fights for money.Ī knockout earns Lefty ( Monte Blue) the title, but nearly costs him his girl.
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug ( Roscoe Arbuckle) challenges a champion.Ī man poses as a boxer to impress a barmaid and is forced to fight the champion.Ĭharlie Chaplin puts a "good luck" horseshoe into his boxing glove and wins.Īn Earl's sister returns to a boxer in time to help him win.Ī young man trades places with a lookalike boxer and learns to fight for what he wants. The film company ran out of money – and film – in the 38th round and had to stop shootingįootage from bout between heavyweights Jack Johnson and James J. Silent footage of most of the championship bout that lasted an astounding 48 rounds. This is a list of films about boxing, featuring notable sports films where boxing plays a central role in the development of the plot.Ĭorbett and Courtney Before the KinetographĪ full-length version of 19th Century title bout.
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