Overview
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Talbert JosselynWriter
- Samuel RoecaWriter
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- March 4, 1951
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
Production
Cast
Tom NealJoe Morelli
Regis ToomeyCapt. Charles Danning
John AbbottPappa Cerrano
Murray AlperSeaman 'Warthog' Novak
Paul BryarC.P.O. Robert Garrells
Harvey ParryDan Sweeney
John ComptonVincent Cerrano
Howard NegleyMatt, Simpson's Captain (uncredited)
Herbert LyttonAdmiral (uncredited)
Riley HillNavy Officer (uncredited)
Jimmy AubreyBritish Fisherman at Lounge Counter (uncredited)
Donald KerrOlder Fisherman at Lounge Table (uncredited)- Wendy WaldronLisa
- Ric RomanTony Cerrano
- Stephen S. HarrisonPietro Cerrano
- Bill FletcherSchott, Fight Promoter
- Ray KemperSailor
- Billy NelsonFisherman (uncredited)
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