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Champ for a Day

Crime

Comedy

Drama

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.

Date: 08/15/1953
Rating: 6.0
Cast: Alex Nicol, Audrey Totter, Charles Winninger, Hope Emerson, Joseph Wiseman, Barry Kelley, Harry Morgan, Jesse White, Horace McMahon, Grant Withers, Dick Wessel, Hal Baylor

Alex Nicol as George Wilson in Champ for a Day Alex Nicol

Audrey Totter as Miss Peggy Gormley in Champ for a Day Audrey Totter

Charles Winninger as Pa Karlsen in Champ for a Day Charles Winninger

Hope Emerson as Ma Karlsen in Champ for a Day Hope Emerson

Joseph Wiseman as Dominic Guido in Champ for a Day Joseph Wiseman

Barry Kelley as Tom Healy in Champ for a Day Barry Kelley

Harry Morgan as Al Muntz in Champ for a Day Harry Morgan

Jesse White as Willie Foltis in Champ for a Day Jesse White

Horace McMahon as Sam Benton in Champ for a Day Horace McMahon

Grant Withers as Scott Cameron in Champ for a Day Grant Withers

Dick Wessel as 'Speedtrap' Calhoun in Champ for a Day Dick Wessel

Hal Baylor as 'Soldier' Freeman in Champ for a Day Hal Baylor