The joe palooka story, popularly known simply as joe palooka, was a 1954 syndicated television series starring kirkwood and featuring former boxing champion maxie. Joe palooka in the big fight approved 1h 6min comedy, drama, sport 6 march 1949 usa gangsters frame joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. See the full list of joe palooka in the big fight cast and crew including actors, directors, producers and more. Any chance he gets to combine the two is like the chocolate syrup on a sundae. This public domain film was originally released as. Gentleman joe palooka 1946 joe palooka in the knockout 1947 joe palooka in fighting mad 1948 joe palooka in winner take all 1948 joe palooka in the big fight 1949. Joe palooka is a naive young man whose father pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused joes mother mayme to leave him and to take young joe to the country to raise him.
It ranked number one in popularity in a fortune poll in 1937 the plot follows the wideranging. Based on the comic strip by ham fisher, this comedy portrays the exploits of a fasttalking boxing manager and the young fighter he is mentoring. The most helpful provenances were the log of the radiogoldindex and newspaper listings otrisms. Best remembered while strapping comic remove boxer joe palooka on display in the past due 1940s and early 1950s, fairhaired, amiablelooking, exceedingly athletic joe kirkwood, jr. Overview of joe palooka in the big fight, 1949, directed by cyril endfield, with leon errol, joe kirkwood, david bruce, at turner classic movies. This turns out to be a difficult task because subversive elements try to prevent the bout. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters.
The same goes for jimmy durantes role of fight manager knobby walsh. They come to his office only to be beaten up by slipp, who runs off with the money. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. It wasnt a huge hit, but did well enough for a lowbudget film, and inspired a number of sequels which, in fact, continued to come out until well into the 1950s. While on a nationwide tour, heavyweight champion joe palooka is asked to fight the mexican champ. The best site for downloading free public domain golden age comic books. Joe palooka tackles the problem of juvenile delinquency then a major concern of middleclass america when he breaks up a rumble between street gangs. It is an entry in monograms lowbudget, highgrossing joe palooka series. That means lots and lots of views of lina dripping blood, lina stark naked, and lina stark naked dripping blood. This edit will also create new pages on comic vine for. Beware, you are proposing to add brand new pages to the wiki along with your edits. The beloved comic strip featuring a bighearted boxing champion ended in. The stooges learn that their inhertance money is in the hands of a crooked lawyer named ichabod slipp. He plays a really inept fighter and stupid guy in general who is endearing for awhile but wears thin.
The men later beg joe to tell the story of how he became champ. The film was adapted by jack jevne, arthur kober, gertrude purcell, murray roth and ben ryan from the comic strip. Joe palooka made his movie debut in palooka 1934 with stuart erwin in the title role, jimmy durante as knobby, lupe velez as nina madero, and marjorie rambeau as mayme palooka. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem little orphant annie by james whitcomb riley, and made its debut on august 5, 1924 in the new york daily news.
Their goal is to use humphrey to get joe palooka to sign. Joe palooka in triple cross 1951 is a comedy, crime movie starring joe kirkwood, jr. Changing his stage name from cristillo to costello after actress helene costello. Season 1 of the joe palooka story premiered on january 1, 1954. No videos, backdrops or posters have been added to the joe palooka story. In keeping with the apparently unstoppable trend in circulating otr. Joe palooka was a newspaper comic strip character created by ham fisher that appeared for the first time in april 1930 and lasted for over 50 years who was described by fisher as a big, good. The boxing adventures of abbott and costello the usa. Joe palooka, champ is a 1946 american film featuring the popular comicstrip boxer joe palooka. Winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival awards central festival central all events. It shows how 150 british soldiers, many of whom were sick and wounded patients in a field hospital, successfully held off a force of 4,000 zulu warriors. Gangsters trying to fix fights frame boxer joe palooka joe kirkwood for murder. Free file downloads, online comic viewer, plus a helpful, knowledgeable community. The strip debuted in 1930 and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers.
Overview of joe palooka in the knockout, 1947, directed by reginald leborg, with leon errol, joe kirkwood, morris carnovsky, at turner classic movies. Vintage joe palooka inflatable bop bag 1950s 60s professional service great prices fast shipping excellent feedback product info this vintage blowup bop bag with sand in the bottom has no visible tears in the vinyl. This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format. A crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slowwitted humphrey to a contract. The definitive the story of joe palooka radio log with. In the second film of monograms joe palooka series, joe is used, by two state senators scheming to obtain oilrich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state. Joe palooka in the big fight is a 1949 comedy film directed by cy endfield, based on the comic strip by ham fisher. First line of dialogue or text i woke jerry when i heard a terrific explosion. Zulu is a 1964 british epic war film depicting the battle of rorkes drift between the british army and the zulus in january 1879, during the anglozulu war. Joe palooka and two friends are taking hostage by three criminals. Example of joe palooka sunday by ham fisher and tony di preta, december 3, year unknown. Joe palooka has come out of retirement for one more fight or several.
As he was hitchhiking home to paterson, he ran completely out of funds in saint joseph missouri and would up performing at a local burlesque theater as a comic. Joe palooka in the big fight 1949 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. If you have an identical or similar to this auction item, please call or contact us to discuss. Joe and anne palooka, along with joes trainer knobby, are vacationing when they a kidnapped by the professor and his gang. On a transport ship, the men are shown the movie bare knuckles, starring joe. Now in the public domain, the film can be seen online. Little orphan annie was a daily american comic strip created by harold gray 18941968 and syndicated by tribune media services. Joe heads for south america to fight the latin champ. If this film had been made a year later, she would have been forced to cover up. Joe palooka was ranked one of the five most popular strips. Probably the most wellknown flick of hers is female vampire, where she is pretty much completely nude for the whole film. The professor plans to make joe throw a fight and shows up at the fight dressed as annes aunt. This one was schlockmeister jess francos favorite actress and also his wife.
Joe palooka comic books are based on the comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist ham fisher in 1921. This film from monogram pictures is the beginning of a series with eleven sequels. Palooka film palooka is a 1934 american precode comedy film directed by benjamin stoloff starring jimmy durante and based on the comic strip by ham fisher. Joe palooka in triple cross 1951 joe and anne palooka, along with joes trainer knobby, are vacationing when they a kidnapped by the professor and his gang. Joe palooka in the big fight 1949 gangsters trying to fix fights frame boxer joe palooka joe kirkwood for. First line reads, oh im so sorry you cant drink joe.
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