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

The Leather Pushers Trailers

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Cast

Dick 'Kid' Roberts

Richard Arlen

Andy Adams

Andy Devine

Pat Danbury

Astrid Allwyn

Slick Connolly

Douglas Fowley

J.R. Stevens

Charles D. Brown

Sailor McNeill

Shemp Howard

Slugger Mears

Horace McMahon

Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell

Charles Lane

Fight Commissioner Dunlap

Wade Boteler

Joe Johnson

George Lloyd

Pete Manson

Eddie Gribbon

Grogan's Manager

Frank Mitchell

Third Roque Gonzalez is a freeloader who lives with his friend Federico, famous ex-jockey who is now racing in hours after low fat. Federico can not shake off Roque, as it constantly reminds that when they were seven, saved his life. The thing is that Frederic attends a gym with the hope of returning to thin enough to ride again, and learns that there Botija Kid, the champion of Spain in the welterweights, need to stake his title to qualify for the European Championship boxing. But of course, nobody wants to take a beating the champion, despite offering her coach bag. Among Paco, the owner of the gym, and Frederick, Roque to get rolling, deceived, you agree to fight the champion ... Parody of the popular movie "Rocky."

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