A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.
- Tex Sanders
- (as Ransom Sherman)
- Duke Carney
- (as Fred Steele)
- Fighter
- (uncredited)
- Fighter
- (uncredited)
- Kid Lucas
- (uncredited)
- Passerby
- (uncredited)
- …
- Second
- (uncredited)
- Bill - Piano Player
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaBefore becoming an actor, Dane Clark had some experience as a professional boxer. Freddie Steele who portrays Mike's final opponent Duke Carney, was also a professional boxer before his retirement led to him becoming an actor.
- GoofsIn some shots of the boxing venue, especially shots from inside the ring, there is obvious use of painted backgrounds with stationary spectators to make the arena appear larger.
- Quotes
Michael Gordon: [his thoughts as a voice over as the referee of the boxing match counts him out] What's the matter with that guy? He's counting me out. He's got it all wrong. I can take it. Wait a minute, look chum, I'm getting up. Gotta get up. Wait.
[the bell rings and Mike is taken to the stool in his corner]
Michael Gordon: [his internal thoughts as a voice over continue] Listen to them, they're after blood. What am I doing here, waiting for the kiss-off? I'm not the boy they want. I'm a long way from home. I gotta tell 'em that. I'm not your boy, you hear me? I belong on a beach. A nice, quiet beach. I wanna hear the water. That's it. That's it.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Suspense: Dead Ernest (1949)
- SoundtracksJust for Now
(uncredited)
Written by Dick Redmond
Performed by Bobbie Canvin
[Laurie (Alexis Smith) sings the song in her act at the Pelican Club; Laurie also sings the song at Sam's Cafe]
He finds Smith singing in a nightclub, only to discover that she's married to Zachary Scott, its owner and a former middleweight champ now confined to a wheelchair. Scott, sadistic and embittered, lives the fight game vicariously through the cohort of ex-boxers who keep his wife in place and through new talent he exploits then drops. In Clark, he sees a contender. Wanting to keep close to Smith (who keeps warning him off), Clark signs up for work on another kind of canvas....
In addition to the always welcome Alexis Smith, the movie boasts good supporting work from Eve Arden, a gal pal with a crush on Clark, and from Jeffrey Lynn, as Smith's alcoholic brother, a doctor working in Scott's gym. Scott himself brings nothing new to the kind of part he found himself typecast in: the effete, insinuating villain. That leaves Clark, who was plainly being groomed as the second-string Garfield but who never left much of an impression on the movies.
The direction, by the undistinguished Lewis Seiler, can only be graded adequate; he keeps things moving along but never tries for anything different or offbeat or striking. In this he's matched by a lackluster script (it was the late 40s; couldn't the dialogue have been a little more etched?). Nonetheless, Whiplash endures as a routine B-movie, with noirish coloration, that reflects the themes and plot-lines of post-war melodrama.
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- Also known as
- Pisksnärten
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1