Joe Palooka Movies
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- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsJoe Kirkwood Jr.Cathy DownsJames GleasonJoe and Anne Palooka, along with Joe's trainer Knobby, are vacationing when they a kidnapped by The Professor and his gang. The Professor plans to make Joe throw a fight (and shows up at the fight dressed as Anne's aunt).
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsJoe Kirkwood Jr.James GleasonLois HallJoe is witness to a mob killing. Two of the killers are after him. He is drugged before the big fight which is watched on TV by his manager Knobby and the thugs who are holding Knobby hostage.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Robert CooganA crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slow-witted Humphrey to a contract. Their goal is to use Humphrey to get Joe Palooka to sign. As things develop, Humphrey becomes mayor.
- DirectorJean YarbroughStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Robert CooganJoe and Anne go off on their honeymoon while Knobby books him into a charity fight which Lord Cecil tries to wreck.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Elyse KnoxJoe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Lina RomayGangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsJoe Kirkwood Jr.Elyse KnoxWilliam FrawleyJoe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsJoe Kirkwood Jr.Leon ErrolElyse KnoxJoe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing him to fix fights. Joe decides to risk his eyesight to save Knobby's honor.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Morris CarnovskyThe third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh (Leon Errol), the manager of Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkkwood), trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out and opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responisble and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance (Trudy Marshall), thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
- DirectorCy EndfieldStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Guy KibbeeIn the second film of Monogram's "Joe Palooka" series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe, he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize-fighting profession, but his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name, and discredit the crooked politicians.
- DirectorReginald Le BorgStarsLeon ErrolJoe Kirkwood Jr.Elyse KnoxManager Knobby Walsh discovers young hunk Joe Palooka and trains him to fight the champ. Mobsters try to make life tough for Joe and his socialite girlfriend Anne. Cameos by several boxing stars.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonJohn Berkes
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonJohn BerkesJoe Palooka faces underdog Andy Brown in a championship bout and gangsters have wagered heavily on Joe's opponent. Just to make sure their bets have been placed on a sure thing, they kidnap Joe's manager, Knobby Walsh, and arrange for one of their stooges to take his place. During the fight, the crooked replacement encourages Joe to take swigs of drugged spring water, which diminishes his fighting prowess.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonShemp HowardNow that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonShemp HowardJoe Palooka and the gang travel to Paris for a boxing match against the French champion. When Anne is assaulted by a masher, Joe searches the streets for the hooligan, distracting him from his preparation for his powerful opponent.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonShemp HowardLee Weber
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonShemp HowardJoe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonShemp HowardJoe Palooka knocks-out his opponent in the adjoining hotel room for making too much noise, postponing the actual fight.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonBeverly PhalonShemp HowardHeavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a championship bout at Madison Square Garden. The farmer sends the local sheriff to collect from Knobby.
- DirectorLloyd FrenchStarsRobert NortonShemp HowardLucy Parker
- DirectorBenjamin StoloffStarsJimmy DuranteLupe VelezStuart ErwinKnobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.