The Kid Comes Back (1938)
TWO PALS BATTLE FOR THE HEAVYWEIGHT CROWN!
A ring veteran turns a Texas tenderfoot into a winning fighter.
- Date of release
- 1938-02-12
- TMDB
- 6.5 / 10 (4)
- Runtime
- 1h 0m
- Genres
- Drama, Comedy
- Director
- B. Reeves Eason
Casting
- Wayne Morris — Rush Conway
- Barton MacLane — Gunner Malone
- June Travis — Mary Malone
- Maxie Rosenbloom — Stan Wilson
- Archie Robbins — Kenneth "Rocky" Rockwell (as James Robbins)
- Dickie Jones — Bobby Doyle
- Joseph Crehan — Danny Lockridge
- Ward Bond — Spike
- Herbert Rawlinson — Mr. D. Redman
- Frank Otto — Joey Meade
Interesting facts
The Kid Comes Back is a 1938 American sports film directed by B. Reeves Eason and starring Wayne Morris, Barton MacLane, June Travis and "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom. The title may be meant to remind audiences of Kid Galahad, a smash hit prizefight movie released the previous year starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, and Wayne Morris in the title role as a young boxer very similar to his part in The Kid Comes Back.
Production
Produced under the working titles "Don't Pull Your Punches" and "Trial Horse." Filming began in November 1936, and had reached the editing room by early December 1936.
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