The Leather Pushers (1940)
The Champion Action-Comedy of the Year!
64 min
A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.
- Release date
- September 13, 1940
- Country of origin
- United States
Cast
- Richard Arlen as Dick 'Kid' Roberts
- Andy Devine as Andy Adams
- Astrid Allwyn as Pat Danbury
- Douglas Fowley as Slick Connolly
- Charles D. Brown as J.R. Stevens
- Shemp Howard as Sailor McNeill
- Horace McMahon as Slugger Mears
- Charles Lane as Henry 'Mitch' Mitchell
- Wade Boteler as Fight Commissioner Dunlap
- George Lloyd as Joe Johnson
Crew
- John Rawlins · Director
- Ben Chapman · Writer
- Maxwell Shane · Writer
- Larry Rhine · Writer
- Ben Pivar · Producer
- Stanley Cortez · Cinematographer
- Arthur Hilton · Editor