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Fighting Fools
Film / 1949

Fighting Fools

Directed by Reginald Le Borg
Comedy

★ 6.0/10Audience rating

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's …

The story

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.

Cast

Leo GorceySlip Mahoney Huntz HallSach Gabriel DellGabe Moreno Frankie DarroJohnny Higgins Lyle TalbotBlinky Harris William BenedictWhitey David GorceyChuck Benny BartlettButch Bert ConwayDynamite Carson, the Champ Evelyn EatonBunny Talbot (as Evelynn Eaton) Bernard GorceyLouie Teddy InfuhrBoomer Higgins
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Ben WeldenLefty Conlin Dorothy VaughanMrs. Higgins Sam HayesBill Radar, Sportscaster Bill CartledgeFighter Joey Prince Paul MaxeyEditor Stanley AndrewsBoxing Commissioner

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