Knockout Reilly

Knockout Reilly

70 mins | Drama | April 16, 1927

A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!

Knockout Reilly

70 mins | Drama | April 16, 1927

Knockout Reilly
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!
Producers Famous Players-Lasky Corporation
Original title Knockout Reilly
Directors Malcolm St. Clair
Writers Kenneth Raisbeck, Albert Payson Terhune, Pierre Collings

Cast

Richard Dix

as Dundee 'Knockout' Reilly

Mary Brian

as Mary Malone

Jack Renault

as Killer Agerra

Harry Gribbon

as Pat Malone

Osgood Perkins

as Spider Cross

Lucia Backus Seger

as Mrs. Reilly

Larry McGrath

as Kewpie Dugan

John Merton

as Buck Lennard