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Benjamin StoloffPalooka (1934)

Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by Ham Fisher.
Joe Palooka (Stuart Erwin) is a naive young man whose father Pete (Robert Armstrong) was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme (Marjorie Rambeau) to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him. But when a shady boxing manager (Jimmy Durante) discovers Joe's natural boxing talent, Joe decides to follow him to the big city, where he becomes a champion and begins to follow his father's path of debauchery, much of it including the glamorous cabaret singer Nina Madero (Lupe Velez). The film also stars William Cagney, the younger brother of actor James Cagney.


This movie is part of the collection: Comedy Films

Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Producer: Edward Small
Production Company: United Artists
Sponsor: k-otic.com
Audio/Visual: sound, black & white
Keywords: Comedy; Jimmy Durante
Contact Information: www.k-otic.com

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: The Bryson Bandit - - May 28, 2009
Subject: Fabulous Flic!!
Take an hour & a half and watch this film. Great acting & look twice @ Cagney....spitting image of his brother. A really enjoyable film from the era when movies were made for fun!!

Reviewer: lurchthing - - April 9, 2008
Subject: good movie
this is a nice way to burn some time what a classic movie

Reviewer: flickfdude - - March 13, 2008
Subject: entertaining.
The first palookas wife was a nice charachter.
Durante is fine too.