World in My Corner

World in My Corner (1956)

The star of "to Hell and Back" in the fighting story of the Champion of the World!

A scrappy fighter from Jersey City named Tommy Shea -- "born in a dump, educated in an alley" -- catches the eye of wealthy businessman, Robert Mallinson, who allows him to train at his Long Island estate. Shea soon falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy, but fears he doesn't have the money to support her in proper style. To get this money, Shea decides to work with crooked fight-promoter Harry Cram, even though this means dropping his honest manager, Dave Bernstein. As the big fight approaches, however, Shea begins to have second thoughts.

Date of release
1956-03-01
TMDB
5.8 / 10 (6)
Runtime
1h 22m
Genres
Drama
Director
Jesse Hibbs

Casting

Interesting facts

World in My Corner is a 1956 American film noir drama sports film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy, Barbara Rush and Jeff Morrow. The film was produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It is one of the few non-Western films in which Murphy appeared.

Production

The film was Murphy's first following the tremendous box-office success of To Hell and Back (1955), a film with the same producer and director as for World in My Corner. Murphy fights with several real-life boxers on screen, including Chico Vejar, Art Aragon and Cisco Andrade. Andrade later praised Murphy as being "the first actor I ever saw who wasn't afraid of getting hit hard in a prize fight scene."

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