"The Champion Action-Comedy of the Year!" 13 September 1940 Adventure, Comedy 64 mins
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
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Richard Arlen as Dick 'Kid' Roberts
Andy Devine as Andy Adams
Astrid Allwyn as Pat Danbury
Douglas Fowley as Slick Connolly
Charles D. Brown as J.R. Stevens
Shemp Howard as Sailor McNeill
Horace McMahon as Slugger Mears
Charles Lane as Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell
Wade Boteler as Fight Commissioner Dunlap
George Lloyd as Joe Johnson
Eddie Gribbon as Pete Manson
Frank Mitchell as Grogan's Manager
Reid Kilpatrick as Ringside Commentator
Ben Alexander as Dan Brown, Announcer
Vera West Costume Design
Jack Otterson Art Direction
Hal Bumbaugh Sound
Arthur Hilton Editor
Bernard B. Brown Sound
Ben Pivar Producer
Stanley Cortez Director of Photography
Russell A. Gausman Set Decoration
Maxwell Shane Writer
John Rawlins Director
Larry Rhine Writer
Ben Chapman Writer
The Leather Pushers Trailer
United States 13 September 1940
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