Movies and TvShows featuring "crooked-promoter" theme.

A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game.

The Western hero takes on a ruthless land baron whose henchmen killed his best friend.

A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Corporal Jack Borden, of the Northwest Mounted Police, trails the man who killed his partner to New York City. The killer is an unscrupulous promoter who is selling worthless stock in a gold mine. Borden, with the help of Blanche Hall, locates the man in a Bowery dive, but he escapes and Borden tracks him back to Canada. Along the way, he discovers that Blanche and his sweetheart, Milly, are long-separated sisters and brings about a reconciliation.

A plumber with a girlfriend turns pro wrestler for a crooked promoter.