Review of Spirit of Youth

Joe Louis stars in the story of a young man who has to leave home in order to make a living to support his family. He eventually ends up in the fight game with Mantan Moreland as a friend. It's the typical story of a down home sort of guy getting mixed up with fast people from the big city who take advantage of him. As both a film made entirely to cash in the fame of the champ and as a small scale movie this is pretty good. To be certain it's full of clichés and musical numbers (no he doesn't sing), but you really don't mind. Louis is surprisingly good, certainly he's better than other sports stars of the era, such a Babe Ruth, who weren't very good. Worth a look if you're at all interested