Movies and TvShows featuring "crooked-manager" theme.

The Leningrad Cowboys, a Finnish rock band, decide to travel to America in hopes of finding success. Along the way, they encounter various obstacles and adventures, including a crooked manager, a long-lost relative, and an obsessed fan. Through their journey, they learn about the American dream and the challenges of pursuing a music career.

The Floorwalker is a silent comedy short film from 1916. It follows the adventures of a clumsy man who works in a department store and gets into various comedic situations. The film features comedic pratfalls, foiled robberies, and a mix-up with identities. It is a classic example of slapstick comedy.

The stooges are the trainers of "Chopper", a beefy boxer, and they bet their bankroll on Chopper to win his next fight. When "Big Mike", their boss, tells them to have Chopper lose or they'll lose their lives, the boys try to soften up Chopper so he'll lose. The fight gets canceled and the stooges have to contend with an angry Big Mike and his goons.

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent success in the ring. Till he is forced to fight Jerry O'Leary, the man she loves. Caught between her devotion to both men, Lita tries her best to have the match canceled, but there is much more to the boxing racket than she had ever imagined...

Lady by Choice is a romantic comedy set in the 1930s. The story revolves around a lawyer who falls in love with a showbiz-drama actress. Their relationship faces obstacles due to societal pressures and cross-cultural differences. The plot takes unexpected twists as blackmail, mysterious inheritances, and scandalous secrets complicate their journey towards a happy ending.

In "Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II," the beloved raisin band faces a sell-out crisis when their manager pairs them with an agent who has ulterior motives. As they navigate the treacherous waters of the music industry, the band members must decide whether to compromise their integrity or stay true to their roots. With a blend of comedy, music, and claymation, this short film is a hilarious and heartfelt exploration of the music world.

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric chair. The nurse of the film's title is Katharine McDonald, who falls in love with her prizefighter-patient Lee Burke as he recovers from a beating received in a fixed prizefight. Katharine must fend off the advances of criminal attorney John Dodge, another patient who also loves her and becomes jealous of Lee. But when Lee is framed for the murder of his disgruntled manager, Slice, by a henchman of the fight-fix leader, Joe Largo, Dodge takes on his defense and works with Katherine to discover the real killer. Convicted and sentenced to death, Burke is about to walk the "last mile", as Katharine encourages mortally wounded Largo to a deathbed confession.

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.

During a boxing match a fighter accidentally kills his opponent in the ring. Afterwards he finds himself falling in love with the dead man's sister.

A young man has a chance to become partners in an auto-repair business, but he doesn't have the money. In order to come up with some quick cash, he decides to temporarily become a professional boxer. The problem is that he isn't an athlete, knows nothing about boxing and stands a very good chance of getting the stuffing beaten out of him.