Fighting Fools

Fighting Fools

69 mins | Comedy | March 17, 1949

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.

Fighting Fools

69 mins | Comedy | March 17, 1949

Fighting Fools
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's death try to get Johnny to take a dive.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Monogram Pictures
Original title Fighting Fools
Directors Reginald Le Borg
Writers Bert Lawrence, Edmond Seward, Gerald Schnitzer

Cast

Leo Gorcey

as Slip Mahoney

Huntz Hall

as Sach

Gabriel Dell

as Gabe Moreno

Frankie Darro

as Johnny Higgins

Lyle Talbot

as Blinky Harris

William Benedict

as Whitey

David Gorcey

as Chuck

Benny Bartlett

as Butch

Bert Conway

as Dynamite Carson, the Champ

Evelyn Eaton

as Bunny Talbot (as Evelynn Eaton)

Bernard Gorcey

as Louie

Teddy Infuhr

as Boomer Higgins

Ben Welden

as Lefty Conlin

Dorothy Vaughan

as Mrs. Higgins

Sam Hayes

as Bill Radar, Sportscaster

Bill Cartledge

as Fighter Joey Prince

Paul Maxey

as Editor

Stanley Andrews

as Boxing Commissioner