Leonard Nimoy gets an "introducing" credit as an Italian kid in Little Italy who goes from gang member to a boxer thanks to Irish priest Richard Rober. Bruce Cabot gets the most interesting role as his manager, a man who is in it only for the money, and is completely honest about it.
The interesting thing about the script is its free acknowledgment of the corruption of the fight game, the short-sighted attitudes of the boxers, and the people hanging around it. Allene Roberts is the good girl, and Mona Knox the one who is also in it for the money.
Despite the structure of the movie, and the shock, first of seeing Nimoy in heavy prosthetics that make him ugly, and then his natural face after plastic surgery, there's a Code-compliant reticence about the racketeers, and an ending that makes little sense. With Mona Freeman, Paul Maxey, and Jack Larson.
The interesting thing about the script is its free acknowledgment of the corruption of the fight game, the short-sighted attitudes of the boxers, and the people hanging around it. Allene Roberts is the good girl, and Mona Knox the one who is also in it for the money.
Despite the structure of the movie, and the shock, first of seeing Nimoy in heavy prosthetics that make him ugly, and then his natural face after plastic surgery, there's a Code-compliant reticence about the racketeers, and an ending that makes little sense. With Mona Freeman, Paul Maxey, and Jack Larson.