The Leather Pushers (1940)
The Champion Action-Comedy of the Year!
1940 · NR · 1h 4m · Comedy, Adventure
Genres: Comedy, Adventure
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.
Director: John Rawlins
Writers: Maxwell Shane, Ben Chapman, Larry Rhine
Cinematography: Stanley Cortez
Editor: Arthur Hilton
Cast
Richard Arlen as Dick 'Kid' RobertsAndy Devine as Andy AdamsAstrid Allwyn as Pat DanburyDouglas Fowley as Slick ConnollyCharles D. Brown as J.R. StevensShemp Howard as Sailor McNeillHorace McMahon as Slugger MearsCharles Lane as Henry 'Mitch' MitchellWade Boteler as Fight Commissioner DunlapGeorge Lloyd as Joe JohnsonEddie Gribbon as Pete MansonFrank Mitchell as Grogan's ManagerMore like this
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