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The Leather Pushers
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The Leather Pushers

Sep 13, 1940
1h 4m
★ 0.0

The Champion Action-Comedy of the Year!

Overview

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.

Genres

Comedy
Adventure

Production Companies

Universal Pictures

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Cast

Richard Arlen

Dick 'Kid' Roberts

Richard Arlen

Andy Devine

Andy Adams

Andy Devine

Astrid Allwyn

Pat Danbury

Astrid Allwyn

Douglas Fowley

Slick Connolly

Douglas Fowley

Charles D. Brown

J.R. Stevens

Charles D. Brown

Shemp Howard

Sailor McNeill

Shemp Howard

Horace McMahon

Slugger Mears

Horace McMahon

Charles Lane

Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell

Charles Lane

Wade Boteler

Fight Commissioner Dunlap

Wade Boteler

George Lloyd

Joe Johnson

George Lloyd

Eddie Gribbon

Pete Manson

Eddie Gribbon

Frank Mitchell

Grogan's Manager

Frank Mitchell