Movies and TvShows featuring "fight-manager" theme.
After years of fighting in the ring, a retired boxer must confront his past and find a new purpose in life. As he grapples with addiction and loss, he receives a second chance at redemption.
Stewardess School is a comedy film that revolves around a group of students attending a stewardess school. They face various hilarious situations and challenges, including navigating through flight mishaps, dealing with strict probation officers, and encountering a twin. The film combines elements of sexploitation and teen comedy, creating a humorous and entertaining story.
Cain, a boxer, and Mabel, a chorus girl, fall in love amidst the chaos of tabloid gossip and publicity stunts. As their relationship develops, they navigate through the challenges of fame, deception, and the boxing world.
Big Town Girls have dating service jobs long enough to learn that a society matron needs a boxer to perform at a party. They talk a waiter into playing the part and a series of accidents and tricks sends him on a boxing career.
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him by a gang of gamblers, who made a rich haul betting on Palooka. Joe, Knobby and the police unite to run down the gamblers, but not before Joe also is nearly murdered by the same means...a poisoned mouthpiece. Elyse Knox is along as Joe's sweetheart Anne Howe, although Anne and Joe had long been married in the comic strip.
The Irish in Us is a comedy about a young Irish-American cop who dreams of becoming a boxer. He faces romantic rivalry, family relationships, and comedic mishaps while navigating through the challenges of being a cop, a firefighter, and a young man in New York City.
An amateur boxer's girlfriend inspires him to face a ring pro entered by a gangster.
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.
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
Fast and Furious is a hilarious crime movie that takes place in 1939. It follows the story of a newspaper reporter who gets caught up in a whodunnit mystery involving a crooked fight promoter, gangster crimes, and a suitcase full of money. With a cast of colorful characters and a twisty plot, this movie will keep you on the edge of your seat.
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.
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...
Right Cross is a drama about a Mexican-American boxer who faces bigotry as he tries to make a name for himself in the boxing world. Set in New York City, the film explores the challenges he faces both inside and outside the ring, including his complex relationships with his family, a sports reporter, and a boxing trainer. The movie also delves into themes of identity, assimilation, and unrequited love.
A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder.
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.
Bobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, a dishonest but beautiful woman uses every trick to ensnare him.
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
Episcopalian minister Gil Allen keeps up his college days interest in boxing by working out at a gym run by his friend, Tom Kelley but declines offers to fight in an actual staged bout, until he realizes he could use the prize money to purchase equipment for local polio victims. Keeping his real identity secret and hoping to step away after one big payday, Gil signs a contract to fight for greedy promoter Gus MacAuliffe.
A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.