Boxing!
by joe_538 | created - 23 Jul 2013 | updated - 10 Apr 2017 | PublicAll the boxing movies, and a few old sitcom episodes just to make things interesting. Let me know if I missed anything.
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1. Rocky (1976)
PG | 120 min | Drama, Sport
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 628,736 | Gross: $117.24M
2. Rocky II (1979)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Sport
Rocky struggles in family life after his bout with Apollo Creed, while the embarrassed champ insistently goads him to accept a challenge for a rematch.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 231,350
3. Rocky III (1982)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Sport
Rocky faces the ultimate challenge from a powerful new contender, and must turn to a former rival to help regain his throne as the undisputed fighting champion.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 211,316 | Gross: $125.05M
4. Rocky IV (1985)
PG | 91 min | Drama, Sport
Rocky Balboa proudly holds the world heavyweight boxing championship, but a new challenger has stepped forward: Drago, a six-foot-four, 261-pound fighter who has the backing of the Soviet Union.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers
Votes: 226,525 | Gross: $127.87M
5. Rocky V (1990)
PG-13 | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Reluctantly retired from fighting, Rocky takes charge of Mickey's gym and agrees to train a young protégé who's hungry for success.
Director: John G. Avildsen | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone
Votes: 150,678 | Gross: $40.95M
6. Rocky Balboa (2006)
PG | 102 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Thirty years after the ring of the first bell, Rocky Balboa comes out of retirement and dons his gloves for his final fight against the reigning heavyweight champ Mason 'The Line' Dixon.
Director: Sylvester Stallone | Stars: Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Tarver, Milo Ventimiglia, Burt Young
Votes: 231,552 | Gross: $70.27M
7. Creed (II) (2015)
PG-13 | 133 min | Action, Drama, Sport
The former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad
Votes: 310,980 | Gross: $109.77M
9. Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Sport
James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.
Directors: William K.L. Dickson, William Heise | Stars: James J. Corbett, Peter Courtney
Votes: 859
10. James J. Corbett; or, How Championships Are Won and Lost (1910)
10 min | Documentary, Short
In the first scenes of this picture we have a chance to see Mr. James J. Corbett as an actor in his "glad rags" and society, where Mr. Corbett meets Miss Florence E. Turner. "The Vitagraph ... See full summary »
Stars: James J. Corbett, Florence Turner, Tom Kennedy
11. The Champion (1915)
31 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Bud Jamison, Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Billy Armstrong
Votes: 2,774
12. Hit Him Again (1918)
10 min | Comedy, Short
This film is considered lost, therefore the plot is unknown.
Director: Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, William Blaisdell
13. The Leather Pushers (1922)
Drama, Sport
A series of six two-reel episodes, each individually titled: #1: Let's Go (1922); #2: Round Two (1922); #3: Payment Through the Nose (1922); #4: A Fool and His Honey (1922); #5: The Taming of the Shrewd (1922); #6: Whipsawed.
Director: Edward Laemmle | Stars: Reginald Denny, Billy Sullivan, Hayden Stevenson, Sam J. Ryan
Votes: 17
14. The Fighting Heart (1925)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Sport
A town outcast, mistrusted by his sweetheart enters the ring and eventually wins the fight and his girl.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Billie Dove, J. Farrell MacDonald, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 56
15. Battling Butler (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Sport
A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil, Walter James
Votes: 3,896 | Gross: $0.70M
16. Jack Dempsey vs. Gene Tunney (2002 TV Special)
25 min | Short, Sport
Jack Dempsey defends his world heavyweight title against Gene Tunney at Sesquicentennial Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Stars: Jack Dempsey, Tom Reilly, Gene Tunney
17. The Official Motion Pictures of the Heavyweight Boxing Contest Between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey (1927)
Sport
Boxing rematch between champion Gene Tunney and challenger Jack Dempsey at Soldier Field stadium in Chicago, Illinois.
Stars: Dave Barry, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney
18. The Ring (I) (1927)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 3,943
19. The Champ (I) (1931)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Family, Sport
An alcoholic ex-boxer struggles to provide a good living for his son.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 3,624
20. The Big Timer (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
An up-and-coming boxer (Ben Lyon) runs into problems when he takes on a female fight manager (Constance Cummings). Ben Lyon is once again playing with Tom Dugan; they co-starred in "The Hot... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Constance Cummings, Thelma Todd, Tom Dugan
Votes: 267
21. Winner Take All (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
Young boxer Jim Kane, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Marian Nixon, Guy Kibbee, Dickie Moore
Votes: 607
22. The Big Chance (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: John Darrow, Merna Kennedy, Natalie Moorhead, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 204
23. The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes. He hides out at a health farm for invalid children and begins to lose his cynicism under the influence of the ... See full summary »
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 725
24. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks | Stars: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
Votes: 1,071
25. Punch Drunks (1934)
G | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport
The stooges discover Curly's hidden talent for boxing, which appears only when he hears the tune "Pop Goes the Weasel". With the help of Larry's violin, Moe attempts to turn him into a champion.
Director: Lou Breslow | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothy Granger
Votes: 1,503
26. Palooka (1934)
Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 415
27. The Personality Kid (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Ritzy McCarty is a fighter managed by his wife Joan, who wants him only to fight until they have the money to build a better life. However, he has other ideas.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Glenda Farrell, Claire Dodd, Robert Gleckler
Votes: 164
28. The Champ's a Chump (1936)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
As a ploy to sign a championship college boxer to a contract, Big Boy enrolls in the college the youth is attending.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Gertrude Messinger, Fred Kohler Jr., Harley Wood
29. Conflict (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Pat's ability as a logging/mining camp fighter sets him up to box prizefighter Corrigan. Unknown to his supporters, he's actually in collusion with Corrigan to throw the fight - until he runs into reporter Maude.
Director: David Howard | Stars: John Wayne, Jean Rogers, Ward Bond, Tommy Bupp
Votes: 161
30. The Milky Way (1936)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and ... See full summary »
Directors: Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack
Votes: 1,843 | Gross: $1.17M
31. The Duke Comes Back (1937)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An ex-prizefighter returns to the ring to help his father-in-law who has money problems. Based on Lucian Cary's novel "The Duke Comes Back."
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Allan Lane, Heather Angel, Genevieve Tobin, Johnny Russell
Votes: 55
32. Flying Fists (1937)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A lumberjack knocks out a champion boxer in a brawl, gets drawn into the boxing world where he is unknowingly set up for a fixed fight.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bruce Bennett, Jeanne Martel, Fuzzy Knight, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 58
33. Kid Galahad (1937)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris
Votes: 3,933
34. When's Your Birthday? (1937)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Sport
Some shady characters discover that a sad sack nightclub bus boy has the ability to predict outcomes of races and other events through astrology.
Directors: Harry Beaumont, Robert Clampett | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Marian Marsh, Fred Keating, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 215
35. The Crowd Roars (1938)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A young boxer gets caught between a no-good father and a crime boss when he starts dating the boss's daughter, although she doesn't know what daddy does for a living.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 459
36. Spirit of Youth (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
The story of the rise of boxer Joe Thomas, which paralleled the life of Joe Louis.
Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Joe Louis, Clarence Muse, Edna Mae Harris, Mae Turner
Votes: 160
37. Ex-Champ (1939)
Approved | 64 min | Drama
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Tom Brown, Nan Grey, William Frawley
Votes: 20
38. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,182
39. Keep Punching (1939)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Henry Jackson, known as Little Dynamite, is a Golden Gloves champion who agrees to turn professional when approached by fight manager Ed Watson, despite the opposition raised by his father ... See full summary »
Director: John Clein | Stars: Henry Armstrong, Willie Bryant, Mae E. Johnson, Hamtree Harrington
Votes: 40
40. Kid Nightingale (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. The incident is witnessed by a shady boxing promoter who sees an opportunity to cash in ... See full summary »
Director: George Amy | Stars: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett, Edward Brophy
Votes: 246
41. There Ain't No Justice (1939)
83 min | Drama
A young boxer falls in with a crooked fight promoter.
Director: Pen Tennyson | Stars: Jimmy Hanley, Edward Rigby, Mary Clare, Edward Chapman
Votes: 63
42. They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A champion boxer on the lamb, believed to have committed murder while drunk, takes refuge and finds redemption at a farm for delinquent youths.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: John Garfield, Claude Rains, The Dead End Kids, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 2,590
43. City for Conquest (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Drama, Sport
Danny is a content truck driver, but his girl Peggy shows potential as a dancer and hopes he too can show ambition. Danny acquiesces and pursues boxing to please her, but the two begin to spend more time working than time together.
Directors: Anatole Litvak, Jean Negulesco | Stars: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,710
44. Golden Gloves (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Bill Crane, an up and coming honest boxer, runs afoul of Taggerty and his fellow racketeers by fighting fair. They set out to ruin Crane but with the support of his girl Mary and newspaperman Matson the pugilist stands up to the mob.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Richard Denning, Jeanne Cagney, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Paige
Votes: 66
45. The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940)
107 min | Drama
Gangsters use a woman to get to a boxer and convince him to throw a big fight.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Gladys Williams, Robert Earl Jones, Carman Newsome, Edna Mae Harris
Votes: 12
46. Knockout (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A prize-fighter falls under the nefarious influence of an unscrupulous boxing promoter-manager, to the detriment of his marriage.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 196
47. Ringside Maisie (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling, Virginia O'Brien
Votes: 428
48. Gentleman Jim (1942)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Votes: 4,118
49. Right to the Heart (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
John T. Bromley III is a young man from high society who is physically humiliated by a prizefighter before his socialite sweetheart, Jenny Killian. He goes to a training camp to redeem his ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Joseph Allen, Cobina Wright, Stanley Clements
50. The Contender (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Sport
In order to get some extra money to send his son to military school, a truck driver turns amateur boxer. His success in that field convinces him take up the sport full-time, and he soon ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo
Votes: 103
51. Come Out Fighting (1945)
62 min | Comedy
The police commissioner asks some local street kids to toughen up his sissy son.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, William 'Billy' Benedict, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 370
52. The Great John L. (1945)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Women in the life of prizefighter John L. Sullivan.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, Greg McClure, Otto Kruger
Votes: 79
53. Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Sport
Manager Knobby Walsh discovers young hunk Joe Palooka and trains him to fight the champ. Mobsters try to make life tough for Joe and his socialite girlfriend Anne. Cameos by several boxing stars.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 52
54. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Sport
After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran
Votes: 1,286
55. Body and Soul (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere
Votes: 5,368
56. Fright Night (1947)
Approved | 18 min | Comedy, Short
The stooges are trainers of Chopper, the boxer, and they bet their bank roll on his next fight. But his manager is a gangster who orders them to have Chopper lose or else. When Chopper's girl goes for his opponent, Stooge things happen.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Shemp Howard, Dick Wessel
Votes: 525
57. Joe Palooka in the Knockout (1947)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh (Leon Errol), the manager of Joe Palooka (Joe Kirkkwood), trying to talk his way ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Morris Carnovsky, Elyse Knox
Votes: 28
58. Killer McCoy (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
Following a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn
Votes: 505 | Gross: $2.00M
59. Joe Palooka in Fighting Mad (1948)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Joe Palooka goes blind during a fight. An operation restores his vision, but he's told not to fight for a year. His trainer Knobby has picked up another fighter, but gangsters are pressing ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Joe Kirkwood Jr., Leon Errol, Elyse Knox, John Hubbard
Votes: 34
60. Joe Palooka in Winner Take All (1948)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, William Frawley, Stanley Clements
Votes: 40
61. Whiplash (1948)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A struggling artist becomes a New York City prizefighter in an attempt to win the affection of the ring promoter's night club singing sister.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Dane Clark, Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden
Votes: 781
62. Champion (1949)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Boxer Midge Kelly rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Arthur Kennedy, Marilyn Maxwell, Paul Stewart
Votes: 4,759
63. Cowboy and the Prizefighter (1949)
Approved | 59 min | Western
In the fourth and last Red Ryder (following "Ride, Rider, Ride", "Roll, Thunder, Roll" and "The Fighting Redhead" in that order) of the Equity Pictures for Eagle-Lion distribution, filmed ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jim Bannon, Don Reynolds, Emmett Lynn, Marin Sais
Votes: 55
64. The Fight Never Ends (1948)
64 min | Crime, Drama
Joe Louis, portraying himself, is a good influence on a group of Harlem youths who are tempted to "go bad" by a gangster known as Caper, an older brother of one of the youths.
Director: Joseph Lerner | Stars: Joe Louis, Ruby Dee, Katherine Byars, Bill Dillard
Votes: 15
65. Fighting Fools (1949)
Approved | 69 min | Drama, Comedy
The gang teams up with a fighter to break up a fight-fixing racket.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro
Votes: 286
66. Joe Palooka in the Big Fight (1949)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove his innocence.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Lina Romay, David Bruce
Votes: 48
67. Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (1949)
Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, Marcel Journet
Votes: 32
68. Ringside (1949)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Sport
Joe O'Hara, a hard fighter, wants the championship title for the money to finance the concert pianist career of his brother Mike, who also could be a good fighter. When Joe fights the title... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Tom Brown, Sheila Ryan, Margia Dean
Votes: 78
69. The Set-Up (1949)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter
Votes: 10,091
70. Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey (1950)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Joe and Anne go off on their honeymoon while Knobby books him into a charity fight which Lord Cecil tries to wreck.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Robert Coogan, Pamela Blake
Votes: 53
71. Joe Palooka in Humphrey Takes a Chance (1950)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Family
A crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slow-witted Humphrey to a contract. Their goal is to use Humphrey to get Joe Palooka to sign. As things develop, Humphrey becomes mayor.
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Robert Coogan, Lois Collier
Votes: 49
72. Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Joe is witness to a mob killing. Two of the killers are after him. He is drugged before the big fight which is watched on TV by his manager Knobby and the thugs who are holding Knobby hostage.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Joe Kirkwood Jr., James Gleason, Lois Hall, Edgar Barrier
Votes: 38
73. Right Cross (1950)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Sport
Two boxing promoters compete to sign up Mexican-American prizefighter Johnny Monterez who, despite his talent, is ashamed of his heritage and boxes on borrowed time due to a permanent hand injury.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: June Allyson, Dick Powell, Ricardo Montalban, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 528
74. Iron Man (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson
Votes: 311
75. Joe Palooka in Triple Cross (1951)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Sport
Joe and Anne Palooka, along with Joe's trainer Knobby, are vacationing when they a kidnapped by The Professor and his gang. The Professor plans to make Joe throw a fight (and shows up at the fight dressed as Anne's aunt).
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Joe Kirkwood Jr., Cathy Downs, James Gleason, John Emery
Votes: 38
76. Flesh and Fury (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Sport
A deaf boxer is exploited by a gold-digging blonde.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Tony Curtis, Jan Sterling, Mona Freeman, Wallace Ford
Votes: 575
77. Glory Alley (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Music
An about-to-retire New Orleans newspaper columnist tells the story of a most unforgettable character: boxer Socks Barbarossa.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ralph Meeker, Leslie Caron, Kurt Kasznar, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 596
One match at the beginning, a montage at the end.
78. Kid Monk Baroni (1952)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Drama, Sport
"Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang, becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in Little Italy, New York.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Richard Rober, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts, Mona Knox
Votes: 186
79. Off Limits (1952)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy
Two Army buddies fight, as one falls in love with the other's aunt, a nightclub singer.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Mickey Rooney, Marilyn Maxwell, Eddie Mayehoff
Votes: 420
Not a boxing movie in itself, but the presence is there
80. The Ring (1952)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Sport
A young American of Mexican decent in East Los Angeles, California uses the boxing ring to make a better life for himself and his family, and learns as much about being a Latino in a white society as he does about boxing.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Gerald Mohr, Rita Moreno, Lalo Rios, Robert Arthur
Votes: 851
81. Champ for a Day (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Alex Nicol, Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson
Votes: 64
82. The Joe Louis Story (1953)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Film-Noir
The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.
Director: Robert Gordon | Stars: Coley Wallace, Paul Stewart, Hilda Simms, James Edwards
Votes: 363
83. The Knockout Parade (1953)
Approved | 48 min | Action, Sport
A compilation film taken from fight-clips of the International Boxing Club. The film has sports-announcer Bill Corum prefacing and narrating clips from top boxing bouts of the past. ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Roberts | Stars: Bill Corum, Ezzard Charles, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano
84. The Square Ring (1953)
83 min | Drama, Sport
Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Director: Basil Dearden | Stars: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen, Maxwell Reed
Votes: 309
85. Tennessee Champ (1954)
Approved | 73 min | Drama
A little B-picture that M-G-M tossed out, barely promoted and forgot about but one that is better than some of the A-dross from Leo in the same era. Shelley Winters, after an absence of 15 ... See full summary »
Director: Fred M. Wilcox | Stars: Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, Earl Holliman
Votes: 268
86. The Square Jungle (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A grocery store clerk turns prizefighter to win prize money to bail his drunken father out of jail.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly
Votes: 410
87. The Harder They Fall (1956)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
An ex-sportswriter is hired by a shady fight promoter to promote his latest find, an unknown but easily exploitable rising star from Argentina.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Rod Steiger, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane
Votes: 9,048
88. The Leather Saint (1956)
Approved | 86 min | Drama
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college-days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelly. Gil declines when fight manager Gus MacAuliffe offers to ... See full summary »
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Paul Douglas, John Derek, Jody Lawrance, Cesar Romero
Votes: 79
89. Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Passed | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart
Votes: 9,025
90. World in My Corner (1956)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Up and coming ambitious boxer Tommy Shea must choose between making dishonest money with crooked promoter Harry Cram or honestly winning a title, as advised by his manager Dave Bernstein.
Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow, John McIntire
Votes: 330
91. The Crooked Circle (1957)
72 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Smith, Fay Spain, Steve Brodie, Don Kelly
Votes: 57
92. Monkey on My Back (1957)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Drama
The true story of Barney Ross, a World War II hero and champion professional boxer, who became addicted to morphine.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Paul Richards, Jack Albertson
Votes: 386
93.
Bonanza (1959–1973)
Episode:
The Duke
(1961)
TV-G | 60 min | Western
*SPOILERS* The Cartwrights challenge an arrogant and cruel British prizefighter, the Duke, and his alcoholic manager to a bout with John Heenan (the Benicia Boy), after the Cartwrights' ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Dan Blocker, Michael Landon
Votes: 123
94. Kid Galahad (1962)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Musical, Sport
After completing his military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter and takes him under his wing.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Elvis Presley, Gig Young, Lola Albright, Joan Blackman
Votes: 3,113 | Gross: $1.80M
95. Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, Sport
Knockout performances by Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney and Julie Harris highlight this hard-hitting drama of corruption in the ring. Featuring Muhammad Ali.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris
Votes: 4,837
96.
The Dick Van Dyke Show (1961–1966)
Episode:
Body and Sol
(1965)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
Rob recalls for Buddy and Sally his Army boxing days when peer pressure at the base put him in the ring with current-day middleweight champ Boom Boom Bailey.
Director: Jerry Paris | Stars: Dick Van Dyke, Rose Marie, Morey Amsterdam, Larry Mathews
Votes: 236
97.
Petticoat Junction (1963–1970)
Episode:
Hooterville Hurricane
(1965)
TV-G | 26 min | Comedy
Uncle Joe becomes Herman Crawley's trainer and manager for the boxing match against Kid Dynamite.
Director: Stanley Z. Cherry | Stars: Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan, Linda Henning, Lori Saunders
Votes: 41
98.
The Saint (1962–1969)
Episode:
The Crooked Ring
(1965)
TV-PG | 48 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Steve Nelson's an up-and-coming boxer, but his girlfriend approaches Simon because she's afraid of his next opponent; a fighter known as the Masked Angel, who killed a man in a fight. ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Norman | Stars: Roger Moore, Walter Brown, Tony Wright, Meredith Edwards
Votes: 119
99.
Batman (1966–1968)
Episode:
Ring Around the Riddler
(1967)
TV-G | 25 min | Action, Crime, Fantasy
The Riddler is out to control all of prize fighting in Gotham City. He begins by kidnapping and brainwashing top prizefighters with the aid of the Siren. Then, under the guise of Mushi ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Strangis | Stars: Adam West, Burt Ward, Yvonne Craig, Alan Napier
Votes: 353
100. Gentleman Jim (1967 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Stars: Jimmy Edwards, Clive Dunn, Richard Wattis, Bob Todd
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