Champ for a Day

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 15, 1953

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Countries

United States of America

Production

Republic Pictures

Cast

Joseph Wiseman,Harry Morgan,Alex Nicol,Hope Emerson,Barry Kelley,Horace McMahon,Audrey Totter,Dick Wessel,Hal Baylor,Jesse Whiteand 2 more

Director

William A. Seiter

Writer

Irving Shulman

Producer

William A. Seiter

Cinematography

John L. Russell

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0045619