Frankie, a young prizefighter, wins a fixed boxing match as part of a crime boss’s plan Read More »
Sport
Once a Jolly Swagman (1949) Jack Lee, Dirk Bogarde, Bonar Colleano, Bill Owen
Factory worker Bill Fox (Sir Dirk Bogarde) is fired from a reliable job and becomes a successful motorbike racer Read More »
The Big Wheel (1949) Edward Ludwig, Mickey Rooney, Thomas Mitchell, Michael O’Shea
Billy Coy comes to Carrell. His late father’s mechanic Red hires Billy as a mechanic. Read More »
World in My Corner (1956) Jesse Hibbs, Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow
A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea — “born in a dump Read More »
The Contender (1944) Sam Newfield, Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson
Widower Gary Farrell can’t afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey Read More »
Go Man Go (1954) James Wong Howe, Dane Clark, Patricia Breslin, Sidney Poitier
The inspirational story of the famed basketball tricksters The Harlem Globetrotters is chronicled in this drama. Read More »
Blue Chips (1994) William Friedkin, Nick Nolte, Mary McDonnell, J.T. Walsh
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. Read More »
Pardon My Stripes (1942) John H. Auer, William Henry, Sheila Ryan, Edgar Kennedy
Football player Henry Platt (William Henry)mistakes a helmet for the football Read More »
Joe Palooka in The Counterpunch (1949) Reginald Le Borg, Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox
Joe Palooka kayos Cardona, but the latter protests that he can beat the champ in his own country – South America. Read More »
Oxford Blues (1984) Robert Boris, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy, Amanda Pays
A young American hustler in Las Vegas spots a rich English Lady. Read More »