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Film / 1948
Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad
Directed by
Reginald Le Borg
Joe 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.
The story
Joe 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.
In the same saga
Joe Palooka series
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Cast
Joe Kirkwood Jr.Joe Palooka
Leon ErrolKnobby Walsh
Elyse KnoxAnne Howe
John HubbardCharles Kennedy
Patricia DaneIris March
Charles CaneGeorge Wendell
Wally VernonArchie Stone
Frank HyersRalph
Jack SheaJeff Lundy
Jack RoperWaldo
Horace McMahonLooie
Jack OvermanTruck Driver
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Eddie GribbonScranton
Sarah PaddenMom Palooka
Michael MarkPop Palooka
Evelynne SmithTruck Driver's Wife
Geneva GrayHat Check Girl
John IndrisanoReferee
Frank ReicherDr. MacKenzie
Jay NorrisStevie
Paul ScardonDr. Burman
Virginia BelmontNurse
Larry SteersDr. Gray
Robert ConwayReporter
Herb VigranReporter
Dewey RobinsonFighter
Emil SitkaPhotographer
Murray LeonardArthur Wild
Robert C. McCrackenFight Announcer
Cy KendallCommissioner R.E. Carfter
Bill McLeanBurke
Jack MowerCop
Paul BryarDetective Lieutenant
Sam WolfeMike
Reid KilpatrickRadio Announcer
Ted PavelecSparring Partner
Meyer GraceSpectator
Frank MayoDetective
Eddie Lou SimmsSecond Pug
Mickey SimpsonHenchman
Bill WallaceHenchman
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