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A 73-minute punch to the gut where love and boxing gloves don't play nice.
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Audience Score
44

Knockout (1941)

poverty row gritB-movie punchring-side romance

Overview

DramaRomance

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to run and then own a gym. However, his manager makes sure that this does not happen and eventually Johnny embraces being a fighter, but Angela becomes increasingly unhappy.

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Standout Aspects

Acting

Arthur Kennedy's desperate hunger in his first leading role.

Direction

William Clemens crams a decade of plot into 73 efficient minutes.

Best for:Solo: Late night rabbit hole into 1940s B-movie boxing melodramas.·Rewatch: Spotting Anthony Quinn before he became a legend.
William Clemens

Director

William Clemens

ReleasedMar 29, 1941
Runtime1h 13m
StatusReleased

Vibe

Pacefast
Intensitymedium
Tonemixed
Feelmedium
Warner Bros. Pictures

Top Cast

Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

Johnny Rocket

Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn

Harry Trego

Olympe Bradna

Olympe Bradna

Angela Grinnelli

Virginia Field

Virginia Field

Gloria Van Ness

Cliff Edwards

Cliff Edwards

Sleepy

Cornel Wilde

Cornel Wilde

Tommy Rossi

Frank Wilcox

Frank Wilcox

Denning

Richard Ainley

Richard Ainley

George Allison

William Edmunds

William Edmunds

Louis Grinnelli

John Ridgely

John Ridgely

Pat Martin

Ben Welden

Ben Welden

Pelky

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Trivia, insights & behind the scenes

Trivia

Arthur Kennedy made this for Warner Bros' B-unit right before his breakthrough in High Sierra the same year.

Cultural

This is pure 'Poverty Row' energy—studios churned out dozens of these boxing weepies for double bills, usually forgotten within weeks of release.

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