The Kid from Kokomo (1939)
Slaphappy Fun... as a strong country boy (Kid Galahad) who was fighting for the world's championship and a shoplifting mammy! Hilarious comedy! A laff-a-minute!
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.
- Date of release
- 1939-05-23
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Romance, Comedy
- Director
- Lewis Seiler
Casting
- Pat O'Brien — William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy
- Wayne Morris — Homer Baston
- Joan Blondell — Doris Harvey
- May Robson — Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell
- Jane Wyman — Marian Bronson
- Stanley Fields — Muscles Malone
- Maxie Rosenbloom — Curley Bender
- Sidney Toler — Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson
- Edward Brophy — Eddie Black
- Ward Bond — Ladislaw Klewicki
- Noble 'Kid' Chissell — Boxer
- Loia Cheaney — Bronson's Maid
Interesting facts
The Kid from Kokomo is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Richard Macaulay and Jerry Wald. The film stars Pat O'Brien, Wayne Morris, Joan Blondell, May Robson, Jane Wyman and Stanley Fields. The film was released by Warner Bros. Pictures on May 23, 1939.
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