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Michael Gordon never intended to be a boxer. But after he decks a burly brawler at a nightclub, a ring promoter encourages him to give the fight game a shot.
Gordon, whose career as an artist is going nowhere, agrees. Besides, it will bring him closer to the woman who has KO’d his heart—the promoter’s wife.
The corrupt world of boxing was a staple of postwar Hollywood in well-known works like Body and Soul, The Set-Up and Champion and in lesser yet admirable works like Whiplash.
Romantic melodrama and noirish atmospherics combine in this tale starring Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden and other reliables. Future The Mickey Mouse Club host Jimmie Dodd has an uncredited role as a piano man.
Original Release
12/24/1948
US Release
12/24/1948
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Dane Clark | Michael Gordon, aka Mike Angelo / Michael Gordon |
Alexis Smith | Laurie Durant |
Zachary Scott | Rex Durant |
Eve Arden | Chris Sherwood / Chris |
Jeffrey Lynn | Dr. Arnold Vincent |
S.Z. Sakall | Sam |
Alan Hale | Terrance O'Leary |
Douglas Kennedy | Costello |
Ransom M. Sherman | Tex Sanders (as Ransom Sherman) / Tex Sanders |
Freddie Steele | Duke Carney (as Fred Steele) / Duke Carney |
Directors
Writers
Maurice Geraghty, Harriet Frank Jr., Gordon Kahn, Kenneth Earl
Cast
Name | Character |
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Dane Clark | Michael Gordon, aka Mike Angelo / Michael Gordon |
Alexis Smith | Laurie Durant |
Zachary Scott | Rex Durant |
Eve Arden | Chris Sherwood / Chris |
Jeffrey Lynn | Dr. Arnold Vincent |
S.Z. Sakall | Sam |
Alan Hale | Terrance O'Leary |
Douglas Kennedy | Costello |
Ransom M. Sherman | Tex Sanders (as Ransom Sherman) / Tex Sanders |
Freddie Steele | Duke Carney (as Fred Steele) / Duke Carney |
Robert Lowell | Trask |
Don McGuire | Markus |
Larry Anzalone | Fighter |
Paul Baxley | Fighter |
John Daheim | Kid Lucas |
Sayre Dearing | Passerby / Ringsider |
Gene Delmont | Second |
Jimmie Dodd | Pianist at Sam's Cafe / Bill - Piano Player |
Bess Flowers | Patron at Pelican Club / Nightclub Patron |
Rudolf Friml Jr. | Orchestra Leader |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Jack L. Warner | Executive Producer |
William Jacobs | Producer |