Knockout Reilly (1927)
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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!
- Release date
- April 16, 1927
- Country of origin
- United States
- Box office
- $380,400
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
- Scotty Devlin as Reilly's Chauffeur
- John Dipse as Fighter in Preliminary Bout
Crew
- Malcolm St. Clair · Director
- Pierre Collings · Writer
- John W. Conway · Writer
- Kenneth Raisbeck · Writer
- Albert Payson Terhune · Writer
- Malcolm St. Clair · Producer
- Edward Cronjager · Cinematographer