Knockout Reilly

Knockout Reilly (1927)

A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!

Date of release
1927-04-16
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 10m
Genres
Drama
Director
Malcolm St. Clair

Casting

Interesting facts

Knockout Reilly is a lost 1927 American silent drama film directed by Malcolm St. Clair and written by Pierre Collings, John W. Conway, and Kenneth Raisbeck based upon a story by Albert Payson Terhune. The film stars Richard Dix, Mary Brian, Jack Renault, Harry Gribbon, Osgood Perkins, and Lucia Backus Seger. The film was released on April 16, 1927, by Paramount Pictures.

Production

Film historian Ruth Anne Dwyer notes that the movie sequences dealing with training were filmed on location at the Lake Placid, New York, the traditional venue for professional training camps. Actual boxing rings were built on which to film the bouts. Dwyer adds “St. Clair paid great attention to details of costuming and the sets in an effort to impart as much authentic detail as possible.”

Due to his keen interest in boxing, as well as the freedom Paramount provided him in casting Knockout Reilly, St. Clair assembled numerous figures from professional boxing to appear in cameo roles.

Among these are Graham MacNamee, who covered the 1927 broadcast of Dempsey-Tunney heavyweight match, announcer Joe Humphreys appears as himself covering the staged fight between Dix and Renault, Patsy Haley as referee, trainer Jimmy DeForrest (who trained Jack Dempsey), boxer Kid McPartland, as timekeeper, former featherweight Larry McGrath, bantam-weight champ Ted "Kid" Lewis, light heavyweights Billy Vidabeck and Jack Perry, and prizefighter Sc…

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