Fast fists
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Fast fists |
| Original title | The Crowd Roars |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1938 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Thorpe |
| script |
Thomas Lennon George Bruce George Oppenheimer |
| production | Sam Zimbalist |
| music | Edward Ward |
| camera | John F. Seitz |
| cut | Conrad A. Annoying |
| occupation | |
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Quick Fists is a 1938 American film.
action
Brian McCoy is a second rate vaudeville artist. His son Tommy sings in a choir, and Brian gets the boy to perform as an entertaining singer before boxing matches . After provocation from the die-hard audience, Tommy beats up a boy. Boxing champion Johnny Martin recognizes the boy's boxing talent and takes him under his wing. He's now going on tour with Johnny with his father. Tommy wants to send the money he has earned to his mother's home, but the father gambled away and drinks it. When they receive news of his mother's death, Brian is heartbroken about his behavior, but he doesn't change.
Years later. Tommy is now a successful boxer. Johnny has already retired from boxing but is returning to the ring for a fight with Tommy. Tommy is careful with his old friend. However, an unfortunate blow kills Johnny. The newspapers now call him Killer McCoy . Tommy can no longer box with this guilt and resigns even though his father had a contract with criminal bookmaker Jim Cain. Tommy tries to maintain a normal job to no avail and eventually returns to Jim Cain.
Cain runs a training center under his real name Carson. There Tommy meets Cain's daughter Sheila, who knows nothing of her father's double life. The two fall in love, but Cain is against the relationship. He fears that through Tommy, his daughter will see the true face of her father. They meet secretly from now on, and Tommy plans to resign again. Shortly before a championship bout, Tommy learns that Sheila and his father Brian have been kidnapped by a rival bookmaker named Pug Walsh. Walsh expects Tommy to lose the fight in round eight. But when Tommy suddenly discovers Sheila in the audience, he knows that she is no longer in danger and wins the fight. Only then does he find out that she was saved by his father, who was killed in the process. Sheila's father now also has to realize that the love for his daughter is more important than the boxing matches, so that nothing stands in the way of the two of them getting married.
background
A Howard Hawks film was released as early as 1932 under the title The Crowd Roars . However, both films have nothing in common. In 1947 a remake of the film appeared under the title Killer McCoy with Mickey Rooney as Tommy McCoy, James Dunn as his father and Ann Blyth as Sheila. Directed by Roy Rowland .
Reviews
"Well-structured and intensely staged boxer film about a broken hero with whom its main actor attempted to cast off the image of the 'nice boy'."
Web links
- Hard fists in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Quick fists. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .