Golden Gloves
Cast & Crew
Edward Dmytryk
Richard Denning
Jean Cagney
J. Carrol Naish
Robert Paige
William Frawley
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Synopsis
A young boy is killed during an amateur prizefight, leaving his sister, Mary Parker, opposed to boxing and all it stands for. Parker's death leads to the resignation of sports writer Wally Matson, who quits because his editor refuses to print the facts behind the boy's death. The truth is that young boys are being brutally exploited by Joe Taggerty, an unscrupulous boxing promoter who is paying off Wally's editor to silence the story. Vowing to clean up amateur boxing by exposing the graft and corruption that has permeated the sport, Wally goes to work for a small newspaper, where he convinces the publisher to sponsor a properly supervised amateur tournament. Wally then invites amateur boxer Bill Crane to participate in the match, but Bill, who is in love with Mary, refuses to fight because of her loathing of the sport. To win Mary over, Wally takes her to dinner and tells her of his boyhood spent in poverty and the hope that boxing offers to boys from the slums, thus securing her permission for Bill to enter the contest. Realizing that Wally's contest will put him out of business, Taggerty tells Bill that Wally has been seeing Mary, prompting the boxer to break up with her. To further sabotage Wally's efforts, Taggerty bribes professional boxer Cliff Stanton to pose as an amateur and enter the tournament, but his plans go awry when Bill, inspired by Mary's vows of love, beats Stanton, thus exposing Taggerty's treachery and winning national acclaim for the Golden Gloves tournament.
Director
Edward Dmytryk
Cast
Richard Denning
Jean Cagney
J. Carrol Naish
Robert Paige
William Frawley
Edward S. Brophy
Robert Ryan
George Ernest
David Durand
James Seay
Sidney Miller
Johnnie Morris
Frank Coghlan Jr.
Alec Craig
Thomas E. Jackson
Lorraine Krueger
Leona Roberts
John Gallaudet
Pierre Watkin
Philip Warren
Norman Phillips
Matty Kemp
Crew
Hans Dreier
William Flannery
Lewis R. Foster
A. E. Freudeman
Gene Garvin
Stanley Goldsmith
Doane Harrison
Charles Hisserich
Sigmund Krumgold
William Lebaron
Maxwell Shane
Maxwell Shane
Henry Sharp
William C. Thomas
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Notes
A pre-production news item in Hollywood Reporter notes that Paramount considered William Holden for the lead in this picture because of his success in Golden Boy. According to a Hollywood Reporter production chart, Jimmy Butler was to have appeared in this picture, but his participation in the final film has not been confirmed.
