Champ for a Day

Synopsis

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.

Main Cast

Alex Nicol

George Wilson

Age : 85 | Popularity : 3%

Audrey Totter

Miss Peggy Gormley

Age : 95 | Popularity : 6%

Charles Winninger

Pa Karlsen

Age : 84 | Popularity : 10%

Hope Emerson

Ma Karlsen

Age : 62 | Popularity : 3%

Joseph Wiseman

Dominic Guido

Age : 91 | Popularity : 8%

Barry Kelley

Tom Healy

Age : 82 | Popularity : 3%

Harry Morgan

Al Muntz

Age : 96 | Popularity : 4%

Jesse White

Willie Foltis

Age : 80 | Popularity : 4%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Irving Shulman
Camera	Director of Photography	John L. Russell
Sound	Music	R. Dale Butts
Editing	Editor	Fred Allen
Directing	Director	William A. Seiter
Production	Producer	William A. Seiter
Department	Role	Name

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