Palooka (1934)

Directors

Benjamin Stoloff

Cast

Bert Moorhouse, Brooks Benedict, Carl Stockdale, Frank Mills, Frank O'Connor, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Harry Tenbrook, Ivan Linow, Jack Mower, Jimmy Durante, Louise Beavers, Marjorie Rambeau, Mary Carlisle, Otis Harlan, Pat Harmon, Robert Armstrong, Rolfe Sedan, Stanley Fields, Stuart Erwin, Thelma Todd, Wheeler Vivian Oakman, William Cagney

The story

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. When a shady boxing manager discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer and fortune hunter Nina Madero.

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