The Pittsburgh Kid

Aug 29, 1941

1h 16m

★ 0.0

Billy Conn, The Pittsburgh Kid Himself...in a story of the boxing world. An action plus story of a Pug and his women.

Overview

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.

Genres

Action

Drama

Production Companies

Republic Pictures

The Pittsburgh Kid Trailers

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Cast

Billy Conn

Patricia Mallory

Jean Parker

Cliff Halliday

Dick Purcell

Joe Barton

Alan Baxter

Barbara Ellison

Veda Ann Borg

Max Ellison

Jonathan Hale

Feets Johnson

Ernest Whitman

Knockout Riley

John Kelly

Magenta

Etta McDaniel

Garvey

Dick Elliott

Morrie

John Harmon

Devlin

Robert Barron

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