An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.An honest boxer refuses to throw a fight for a gambler. They get into a fight and the boxer knocks the gambler out.
Sheila Bromley
- Ada
- (as Sheila Manors)
Monte Collins
- Gloomy Gus
- (as Monty Collins)
Fred 'Snowflake' Toones
- Snowflake
- (as Snowflake)
Allan Cavan
- Detective
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- Maitre d'hotel
- (uncredited)
Lester Dorr
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Olin Francis
- Hobo
- (uncredited)
Harry Harvey
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Jack Ingram
- Morgan Henchman
- (uncredited)
Donald Kerr
- Fight Announcer
- (uncredited)
Frank McCarroll
- Gym Fighter
- (uncredited)
Philo McCullough
- Fight Promoter
- (uncredited)
Charles McMurphy
- Cop
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis film is one of over 200 titles in the list of independent feature films made available for television presentation by Advance Television Pictures announced in Motion Picture Herald 4 April 1942. At this time, television broadcasting was in its infancy, almost totally curtailed by the advent of World War II, and would not continue to develop until 1945-1946. Because of poor documentation (feature films were often not identified by title in conventional sources) no record has yet been found of its initial television broadcast. It's earliest documented telecasts took place in New York City Wednesday 29 September 1948 on WATV (Channel 13) and in Atlanta Monday 19 December 1949 on WSB (Channel 8). West Coast televiewers got their first look at it in Los Angeles Tuesday 4 April 1950 on KECA (Channel 7).
- SoundtracksWe Like to Roam the Highways/Dusty Old Shoes
Written by Didheart Conn
Sung by the hoboes in the hobo camp
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While it is a bad film...it's enjoyable enough!
"Born to Fight" is not a very good film. It's filled with just about every boxing movie cliche and at times I found myself laughing about that. But, despite all the striked against it, the movie isn't terrible and is watchable IF you cut it a lot of slack!
When the story begins, the famous boxer, Bomber Brown (Kane Richmond), gets into a fight with a scum-bag gambler (Jack LaRue). In the process, the crooked gambler is injured...and Brown goes into hiding because he's worried about prison...especially if the guy croaks. Eventually, he lands on his feet when he meets a pugnacious young guy, Babyface Madison (Frankie Darro), and decides to train him for the boxing ring. However, just about every possible problem comes up during the course of the film--including a return of the old crooked gambler. Can Bomber and Babyface make it to the top of the fight game....and can Bomber avoid prison?
As I said, the film is filled with cliches....and the story works out too magically well at the end. But despite my better judgment, I actually kind of enjoyed the story...even if it is pretty much a re-working of a previous film, "The Life of Jimmy Dolan" (and, which was remade as "They Made Me a Criminal").
By the way, the film also has an appearance by Fred 'Snowflake' Toones...playing a guy named 'Snowflake'. It's all very stereotypical and sad to see Toones playing an incredibly stupid guy...too stupid not to be seen as offensive by most audiences today.
When the story begins, the famous boxer, Bomber Brown (Kane Richmond), gets into a fight with a scum-bag gambler (Jack LaRue). In the process, the crooked gambler is injured...and Brown goes into hiding because he's worried about prison...especially if the guy croaks. Eventually, he lands on his feet when he meets a pugnacious young guy, Babyface Madison (Frankie Darro), and decides to train him for the boxing ring. However, just about every possible problem comes up during the course of the film--including a return of the old crooked gambler. Can Bomber and Babyface make it to the top of the fight game....and can Bomber avoid prison?
As I said, the film is filled with cliches....and the story works out too magically well at the end. But despite my better judgment, I actually kind of enjoyed the story...even if it is pretty much a re-working of a previous film, "The Life of Jimmy Dolan" (and, which was remade as "They Made Me a Criminal").
By the way, the film also has an appearance by Fred 'Snowflake' Toones...playing a guy named 'Snowflake'. It's all very stereotypical and sad to see Toones playing an incredibly stupid guy...too stupid not to be seen as offensive by most audiences today.
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- planktonrules
- Oct 14, 2018
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- Runtime1 hour 5 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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