****SPOILERS**** Dewey Martin is the "Batteling Decon" Daniel "Danny" Norson who turns to boxing on the advice of his new found shyster manager Willy Worbel, Kennen Wynn,who's only interested in how much Danny can make for him in the ring who in the end suffers a religious conversion in how decent and honest his boxer is. This all started in a fight that Danny was involved in where he killed, or so he thought, local tough guy Sixty Jubel, Charles Buchinsky aka Bronson, with one solid right punch in self defense when he cornered him on the city docks.
Feeling guilty in breaking one of the Ten Commandments-Thou Shall Not Kill-and on the lamb from the police Danny is talked into becoming a prize fighter, something he has no interest in, by Willy in him not really wanting to knock out his opponents but in being knocked out himself for the crime, killing Jubel, that he had committed. With Danny donating 20% of his purse to his church that's facing foreclose from the bank, that Willy secretly teaks as much as 90% of, Danny goes on a tear winning 15 in a row making his the #1 contender for the middleweight champion of the state of Tennessee to fight the undefeated, like himself, ***MAJOR SPOILER*** state champ the Biloxi Blockbuster played by a resurrected from the dead and in tip top fighting shape Sixty Jubel!
One of the last movie that Dewey Martin had a staring role as well as one of the first that Charles Bronson-known then as Charles Buchinsky- without his famous mustache had a major as well as talking part in. There's also Shelly Winters in her first movie in almost two years as Willy's long suffering wife Sarah who takes a shine to Danny in how innocent as well as religious he is. That in the end has her, as well as Danny, have her sinful husband turn his life around and join Danny's church and help save the souls of sinners like himself in turning their, like he did, lives around.
Feeling guilty in breaking one of the Ten Commandments-Thou Shall Not Kill-and on the lamb from the police Danny is talked into becoming a prize fighter, something he has no interest in, by Willy in him not really wanting to knock out his opponents but in being knocked out himself for the crime, killing Jubel, that he had committed. With Danny donating 20% of his purse to his church that's facing foreclose from the bank, that Willy secretly teaks as much as 90% of, Danny goes on a tear winning 15 in a row making his the #1 contender for the middleweight champion of the state of Tennessee to fight the undefeated, like himself, ***MAJOR SPOILER*** state champ the Biloxi Blockbuster played by a resurrected from the dead and in tip top fighting shape Sixty Jubel!
One of the last movie that Dewey Martin had a staring role as well as one of the first that Charles Bronson-known then as Charles Buchinsky- without his famous mustache had a major as well as talking part in. There's also Shelly Winters in her first movie in almost two years as Willy's long suffering wife Sarah who takes a shine to Danny in how innocent as well as religious he is. That in the end has her, as well as Danny, have her sinful husband turn his life around and join Danny's church and help save the souls of sinners like himself in turning their, like he did, lives around.