Championship boxer Joe Palooka is a publicist’s nightmare (too virtuous!) but a boon to scheming politicians who finagle Joe's endorsement of a land-use scheme that cloaks their actual corrupt designs. Joe's morals and wits prove a match for his fists and wrong is soon put to right in this Poverty Row trifle written by Cy Endfield, whose attention to machine politics harmonizes with his later works.
16mm, b/w, 72 min. Production: Monogram Pictures, Inc. Distribution: Monogram Distributing Corp. Producer: Hal E. Chester. Director: Cy Endfield (as Cyril Endfield). Based on the comic strip Joe Palooka created by Ham Fisher. Screenwriter: Cy Endfield (as Cyril Enfield). Cinematographer: William Sickner. Editor: Ralph Dixon. With: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood, Guy Kibbee, Elyse Knox, Lionel Stander.
