Biography: Max Baer |
Boxing champ Max Baer made his film acting bow in The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933). This MGM "special" co-starred Baer with Walter Huston and Myrna Loy--not to mention his fellow pugilists Jack Dempsey, Primo Carnera, Jesse Willard, Jim Jeffries... more
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Tags: Western
Length: 75min
Rory Calhoun is Utah Blaine in this pinch-penny Sam Katzman-produced western. Adapted from a novel by Louis L'Amour, the story concerns the efforts of gunslinger Blaine to save a group of ranchers from an outlaw gang. When one the ranchers is killed,...
Cast: Humphrey Bogart Rod Steiger Nehemiah Persoff Edward Andrews
Tags: Sports Drama Film a Clef Drama Crime Drama
Length: 108min
An obviously ailing Humphrey Bogart made his final screen appearance in The Harder They Fall. Adapted from a novel by Budd Schulberg, the film is a thinly disguised ~a clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal. Bogart is cast as unemployed...
Cast: Jackie Coogan Sam Newfield "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom
Length: 72min
Originally slated for release by Eagle Lion, Skipalong Rosenbloom purchased by United Artists -- who gave it a cursory theatrical release before selling the film to television. As it turned out, TV was the appropriate medium for this heavy-handed...
Cast: Claudette Colbert Robert Young George Brent
Tags: Comedy Romance Workplace Comedy Romantic Comedy
Length: 87min
Bride for Sale is an old-fashioned romantic triangle brightened by the star power of Claudette Colbert, George Brent and Robert Young. In search of a "perfect" husband, Nora Shelly (Colbert) decides to comb through the tax records of several eligible...
Cast: Lou Costello Bud Abbott
Tags: Adventure Comedy Adventure Slapstick Comedy Jungle Film
Length: 79min
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello temporarily leave their usual Universal stamping grounds to star in the Huntington Hartford production Africa Screams. Costello plays the colorfully inept Stanley Livingstone, a meek book salesman who poses as a big-game...
Cast: Lupe Velez Eddie Albert Max Baer Frank Mills Jerome Cowan
Tags: Comedy Sports Drama
Length: 62min
Lupe Velez is "The Mexican Spitfire" in everything but name in the frantic baseball farce Ladies Day. Eddie Albert plays Wacky Waters, star pitcher of the Sox, a league-leading contender for the World Series. Alas, whenever Wacky falls in love, his...
The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Cast: Myrna Loy Walter Huston W.S. Van Dyke
Tags: Sports Drama Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 102min
One woman helps make an unknown boxer a star, but could a handful lead him back to obscurity again? Steve Morgan (Max Baer) is a ex-sailor tending bar in a seedy dive when The Professor (Walter Huston), a boxing coach, sees Morgan make short work of a...
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