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Champ for a Day (1953)

Champ for a Day (1953)

Drama Crime Comedy

HIS FISTS...Made For Killing...HER LIPS...Made For Kissing

Release Date: 1953, August 15
Directors: William A. Seiter
Countries: United States of America
Production: Republic Pictures, Republic Pictures
Cast: Joseph Wiseman, Harry Morgan, Barry Kelley, Charles Winninger, Dick Wessel, Jesse White, Grant Withers, Audrey Totter, Alex Nicol, Hal Baylor, Horace McMahon, Hope Emerson

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

boxing heavyweight boxer