The Pittsburgh Kid (1941)
Billy Conn, The Pittsburgh Kid Himself...in a story of the boxing world. An action plus story of a Pug and his women.
Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.
- Date of release
- 1941-08-29
- TMDB
- 7.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 1h 16m
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Director
- Jack Townley
Casting
- Billy Conn — Billy Conn
- Jean Parker — Patricia Mallory
- Dick Purcell — Cliff Halliday
- Alan Baxter — Joe Barton
- Veda Ann Borg — Barbara Ellison
- Jonathan Hale — Max Ellison
- Ernest Whitman — Feets Johnson
- John Kelly — Knockout Riley
- Etta McDaniel — Magenta
- Dick Elliott — Garvey
- John Harmon — Morrie
- Robert Barron — Devlin
Interesting facts
The Pittsburgh Kid is a 1941 American sports film directed by Jack Townley and starring Billy Conn, Jean Parker and Dick Purcell.
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