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Ace reporter takes the underworld for a ride!
An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.
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1953 Directed by Edward Bernds
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11 Oct 1953
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Stanley Clements, who replaced Leo Gorcey in the Bowery Boys, stars as a sportswriter in this newspaper crime drama originally produced as TABLOID. Boxer Myron Healey (PANTHER GIRL OF THE KONGO) is killed during a match his friend Clements believed he had no business competing in. Clements suspects gangster Ted de Corsia (THE NAKED CITY) was involved in pressuring Healey to fight, and he convinces his editor (James Flavin) to let him investigate. Meanwhile, de Corsia coerces college basketball player Scotty Beckett (GASOLINE ALLEY), the brother of his moll Veda Ann Borg (REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES), to throw a game. Maybe that’s the angle Clements should take to bring down de Corsia’s gambling empire.
Edward Bernds (RETURN OF THE FLY)…
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What a nice surprise. A crime film I'd never even heard of before. It's from 1953 but has that late 30's/early 40's "His Girl Friday" vibe to it, but without that much comedy. Well done for a small film.
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This zippy little crime B packs an awful lot into its 61 minute running time. There's extortion, prizefighting, romance, suicide, murder even a gun fight! It's low budget origins show but it moves so fast you hardly notice.