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The Contender

Synopsis

A hardworking truck driver trades his rig for boxing gloves when he desperately needs money to send his son to military school. Rising through the amateur ranks with surprising success, he commits to the sport full-time and fights his way toward a shot at the Heavyweight Championship. But when fame, fortune, and a seductive blonde enter his life, this devoted father must choose between the intoxicating pleasures of his newfound success and the values that drove him to fight in the first place.

Drama

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Details

Title:
The Contender

Latest releases:
May 10, 1944

Decade:
Years 1940

Country of origin:
United States of America

Duration
63mn

Genres
Drama

Actors
Buster Crabbe, Arline Judge, Julie Gibson, Donald Mayo