Shirley Ann Richards' last movie was produced and directed by her husband Edmond Angelo - after which both quit the biz and he went into engineering. It's a sort of Warner Bros style movie set in the world of boxing, with no real one star and heaps of subplot.
William Bishop is a boxer out of prison for a crime he didn't commit. He wants to find out who framed him and falls in love with good girl Ann Richards. But leading man duties are shared with Wally Cassell, as the pathetic guy who gets him out of prison and is attached to Bishop and get jealous of Richards. And Cassell's brother Sheldon Leonard.
And Leonard has a girlfriend Anne Gwynne who hates Cassell because he promoted Gwynne's earlier boyfriend Richard Benedict who is now brain injured and eventually dies.
It's written by a former boxer and benefits from that inside feel. It just kind of is all over the place with a melodramatic ending of Bishop almost getting kiled in the ring and last minute confessions and Cassell having a stroke.
The acting is quite good. Leonard's voice reminded me of a cartoon character, I'm not sure which. Richards has essentially a support part but not a bad one - a good girl attracted to Bishop, she gets to be lively and pretty. Bishop is a little dull. Cassell is excellent as is Gwynne.
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