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1. Stewardess School (1986)
R | 89 min | Action, Comedy
The zany "stewdents" at a wacky flight attendants' school have all sorts of wild and crazy high-flying adventures in this '80s comedy.
Director: Ken Blancato | Stars: Brett Cullen, Mary Cadorette, Don Most, Sandahl Bergman
Votes: 1,638
2. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,181
3. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
When the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Votes: 813
4. Cain and Mabel (1936)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 2,068
5. Little Orphan Annie (1938)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Ann Gillis, Robert Kent, June Travis, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 60
6. Kid Monk Baroni (1952)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Drama, Sport
"Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang, becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in Little Italy, New York.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Richard Rober, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts, Mona Knox
Votes: 186
7. The Battle of the Century (1927)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy
A scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jack Adams, Chester A. Bachman
Votes: 1,478
8. The Irish in Us (1935)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy
Two brothers, a police officer and a boxing promoter, vie for the affections of a lovely young woman.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Olivia de Havilland, Frank McHugh
Votes: 772
9. Fast and Furious (1939)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge - much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 874
10. The Leather Saint (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college-days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelly. Gil declines when fight manager Gus McAuliffe offers to ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero
Votes: 79
11. Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh (Leon Errol), the manager of Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkkwood), trying to talk his way ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Morris Carnovsky, Elyse Knox
Votes: 28
12. Golden Gloves (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Bill Crane, an up and coming honest boxer, runs afoul of Taggerty and his fellow racketeers by fighting fair. They set out to ruin Crane but with the support of his girl Mary and newspaperman Matson the pugilist stands up to the mob.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Richard Denning, Jeanne Cagney, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Paige
Votes: 66
13. The Big Timer (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
An up-and-coming boxer (Ben Lyon) runs into problems when he takes on a female fight manager (Constance Cummings). Ben Lyon is once again playing with Tom Dugan; they co-starred in "The Hot... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings, Thelma Todd, Tom Dugan
Votes: 267
14. Night Parade (1929)
Passed | 71 min | Drama
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, on the eve of his biggest fight, he becomes entangled in the snare of a dishonest woman and ends up framed.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Hugh Trevor, Dorothy Gulliver, Robert Ellis
Votes: 128
15. Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Joe and Anne go off on their honeymoon while Knobby books him into a charity fight which Lord Cecil tries to wreck.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Robert Coogan, Pamela Blake
Votes: 53
16. In This Corner (1948)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During a naval battle in the South Pacific, Jimmy Weston is forced to strike a shipmate who has gone berserk. The sailor falls and is accidentally killed, and as a result of the incident, ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Scott Brady, Anabel Shaw, James Millican, Mary Meade
Votes: 22
17. Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet
Votes: 32
18. Right to the Heart (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Joseph Allen, Cobina Wright, Stanley Clements
19. Champ for a Day (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alex Nicol, Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson
Votes: 64
20. We're Going to Be Rich (1938)
78 min | Comedy, Drama, History
A drifter Dobbie and his wife Kit leave Australia in the 1880s for South African gold fields. She discovers happiness is where her husband is.
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Coral Browne
Votes: 35
21. The Victor (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
In order to save his family from financial ruin, an English aristocrat agrees to come to America and marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman. Once he gets there, though, he can't bring ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Laemmle | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Dorothy Manners, Frank Currier, Otis Harlan
22. Pardon Our Nerve (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
City girls have dating-service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part, and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Lynn Bari, June Gale, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Michael Whalen
Votes: 15
23. For the Love of Pete (1936)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Robert Norton, Shemp Howard, Lucy Parker, John Berkes
Votes: 12
24. Taking the Count (1937)
Approved | 21 min | Short
Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Robert Norton, Beverly Phalon, Shemp Howard, Charles Kemper
Votes: 18
25. The Girl from Monterrey (1943)
Passed | 58 min | Romance, Sport
Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Armida, Edgar Kennedy, Veda Ann Borg, Jack La Rue
Votes: 61
26. Ex-Champ (1939)
Approved | 64 min | Drama
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley
Votes: 20
27. The Screen Test (1936)
19 min | Short, Comedy
Buster West and Tom Patricola are understudies in a melodrama but the star has them fired. They try for a job at a film studio and the producer says he is looking for a romantic-type who ... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Buster West, Tom Patricola, Dudley Clements, Donald MacBride
28. Here's Howe (1936)
Approved | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka (Robert Norton) and his manager/trainer Knobby Walsh (Shemp Howard), are eating a poor farmer out of house and holdings while Joe prepares for a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd French | Stars: Robert Norton, Beverly Phalon, Shemp Howard, Maxine Stone
Votes: 13
29. The Ring and the Belle (1941)
Approved | 20 min | Comedy, Short
Andy becomes the manager of a prizefighter. The problem is, the figher has just skipped town.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Andy Clyde, Vivien Oakland, Jack Roper, Dudley Dickerson
Votes: 15
30.
Fearless Fosdick (1952– )
Episode:
Evil-Eye Fleegle
(1952)
26 min | Comedy
Fosdick is pitted against the title character, who's trying to make his brother-in-law Herman the wrestling champion of Brooklyn by using his secret weapon - the dreaded "double whammy".
Director: Mary Chase | Stars: John Griggs, Gilbert Mack, Jean Carson