Champ for a Day
HIS FISTS...Made For Killing...HER LIPS...Made For Kissing
1953-08-15 | 90 minutes
Plot Summary
An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.
Cast
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Alex NicolGeorge Wilson
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Audrey TotterMiss Peggy Gormley
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Charles WinningerPa Karlsen
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Hope EmersonMa Karlsen
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Joseph WisemanDominic Guido
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Barry KelleyTom Healy
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Harry MorganAl Muntz
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Jesse WhiteWillie Foltis
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Horace McMahonSam Benton
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Grant WithersScott Cameron
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Dick Wessel'Speedtrap' Calhoun
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Hal Baylor'Soldier' Freeman
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