Champ for a Day

Champ for a Day

1953
1h 30m
6.0

6.0/10

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

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.

Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
Republic Pictures
Production Countries
United States of America
Spoken Languages
English

Quick Facts

Release Date August 15, 1953
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt0045619

Cast

Alex Nicol
Alex Nicol

George Wilson

Audrey Totter
Audrey Totter

Miss Peggy Gormley

Charles Winninger
Charles Winninger

Pa Karlsen

Hope Emerson
Hope Emerson

Ma Karlsen

Joseph Wiseman
Joseph Wiseman

Dominic Guido

Barry Kelley
Barry Kelley

Tom Healy

Harry Morgan
Harry Morgan

Al Muntz

Jesse White
Jesse White

Willie Foltis

Horace McMahon
Horace McMahon

Sam Benton

Grant Withers
Grant Withers

Scott Cameron

Dick Wessel
Dick Wessel

'Speedtrap' Calhoun

Hal Baylor
Hal Baylor

'Soldier' Freeman

Key Crew

William A. Seiter
Director
William A. Seiter
Producer
Irving Shulman
Screenplay