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see all genres ›Moviegoers love being ringside judging from the ongoing popularity of boxing movies, whose pugilistic protagonists range from the heroic to the repellent and all points in-between.
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Genres / Sport / Boxing
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American Pluck
A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue in this Chadwick Pictures comedic melodrama from 1925. Please excuse the poor source quality of this film....Start your free trial to watch
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Battling Butler
The greatest box-office success of all his independent comedies, BATTLING BUTLER is a rarely-seen gem that mingles Buster Keaton's deadpan demeanor and awesome physical agility with a particularly dramatic storyline. Keaton stars as Alfred Butler, a fragile young man whose father sends him into the country where he hopes...Start your free trial to watch
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Be Yourself
Comic chanteuse Fannie Brice stars as a nightclub singer in love with a thick-witted boxer (Robert Armstrong) in this delightful musical from the dawn of the talkies. Highlighted by five musical numbers co-written by Billy Rose (including "When a Woman Loves a Man"), BE YOURSELF showcases the unique blend of sophisticated...Start your free trial to watch
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Billy Edwards and the Unknown
The only surviving round of a five-round contest (with each round a separate film lasting about 20 seconds). Billy Edwards was a middle-aged boxing instructor in 1895. Because the boxer "Warwick" bears a striking resemblance to Edwards, this film has often been identified (incorrectly) as a Glenroy...Start your free trial to watch
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Breakdown
There is action and drama in and out of the ring when an ex-convict (William Bishop) becomes a rising heavyweight fighter and a championship contender. Then, on the eve of the big fight, he finds the man who can prove that he was framed for the crime for which he served time.Start your free trial to watch
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Champion Joe
Joe Yabuki is a troubled orphan who ran away from the orphanage. While wandering in the Tokyo slums, he met Danpei, a former boxer who saw the potential in Joe and trained him to become a superb fighter. It’s only a matter of time before Joe faces his greatest rival, Tohru Rikiishi.Start your free trial to watch
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Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Although prize fighting was illegal in every state in the Union, boxing was a national obsession. James J. Corbett, the heavyweight champion who had defeated the great John L. Sullivan, was not only a sports hero but a stage star (and, for women, a matinee idol). The Corbett-Courtney fight was far and away...Start your free trial to watch
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Men Boxing
Displays of virile masculinity, taken in the male-centered world of the Edison Laboratory. The disciplined, toned bodies of these athletes stand in implicit contrast to those of Edison staff members behind the camera (the fleshy tinkers, brains and insomniacs).Start your free trial to watch
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Ringside
Middleweight boxer Tom Brown works his way up to a title fight, but loses it along with his eyesight when champion John Cason, aware that Joe is blind in one eye, goes to work on the other. Brown's brother, concert pianist Don Barry, decides to take up boxing and settle the score. When the smoke of battle clears, will he have...Start your free trial to watch
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Roaring City
Private eye Dennis O'Brien (Hugh Beaumont) will do anything for a dame or a dollar, tackling two more assignments filled with pistol-point suspense. The first involves a "fixed" fight, double-crosses and, of course, murder. Later, his reward for hiring out to pose as a young beauty's husband is a knockout blow to the head and...Start your free trial to watch
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A Scrap in Black and White
Inter-racial boxing was a flashpoint in the worlds of politics and sports, as Jack Johnson would demonstrate just a few years later. One way to make light of these tensions (but also to extend them) was to displace such encounters onto adjacent subject matter, such as a match between two young boys. As the...Start your free trial to watch