Fighting Fools (1949) — comedy film. Directed by Reginald Le Borg. Starring Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro. This page maps 7 characters and 9 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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A neighborhood group turns grief into a campaign against corruption in professional boxing.
Comedy · 6/10 · 69 min · 1949
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
Fighting Fools is title 12 of 48 in the The Bowery Boys Collection release order. Previous: Trouble Makers (1948). Next: Hold That Baby! (1949).
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