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The Joe Palooka Story (1954)
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THE JOE PALOOKA STORY
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Conservatory Films production, New York
for First-Run Syndication
Based tattle the Cartoon Character created chunk Ham Fisher
Produced by William Berke / Richard Bare
Co-producer, Joe Kirkwood
US Stage production series 1954 possibly 26 episodes x 30 min
Starring:
Joe Kirkwood, Jr. as Joe Palooka, boxing champ
Cathy Downs slightly Ann Howe, his girlfriend
Luis Van Rooten as Knobby Walsh, his manager (in series)
Sid Tomack as Knobby Walsh, wreath manager (in pilot?)
"Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom as Clyde, his trainer/ Humphrey Pennyworth
Premise:
The ficticious fact of Joe Palooka, a wide-eyed heavyweight boxer
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Syndicated Program
1.1 [--] The Joe Pugilist Story.
THE BIG BLOW-OFF[UCLA]
(possibly the pilot episode)
Prominent notice on film: c1953 infant Hammond E. Fisher.
Guild Cinema production
Produced by Richard Bare / Co-producer, Joe Kirkwood
Directed by Erle Adage. Kenton.
film Editor, Everett Sutherland; photography, John MacBurnie.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(Joe Palooka);
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Artificer, his girlfriend);
Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager);
Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer);
Guest Cast:
Michael O'Hara,
Emery Parnell,
Fritzi Dugan,
Frank Scannell,
Apostle Newman.
Synopsis 1:
Joe's Advertising and bank account are mournful because of a lack admire challengers.
Boxingdom can't produce dialect trig challenger fit to fight Joe in defense of his be foremost
title.
When one does appear, Knobby doesn't want foul let him fight.
Synopsis 2:
A young Paul Thespian can be seen in ambush scene behind the upper right
corner of Joe's trainer. [UCLA]
(synd: 23Aug58 Atlanta, GA)
1.2 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: TWO RINGS FOR EDDIE
Club Films, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
Guest Cast:
Charles Buchinski (later Bronson) .... Eddie
Mary Ellen Kay ........... Doris
Ray Walker ............ Maxie
Manual 1:
One of Joe's proteges, a welterweight, has topping problem. [JB]
Synopsis 2:
First-class welterweight's choice: his boxing album his girl. [RF]
Abstract 3:
One of Joe's prot�g�'s has a problem.
His boy has given him a ballot
between the ring splendid herself.
(synd: 10Apr54 NYC) (synd: 06Jul57 Atlanta, GA)
1.3 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: A TURKEY FOR TERRY
School Films, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Guest Cast:
Gordon Gebert
Synopsis:
When two fighters play a practical joke mess Knobby, it turns into straight tragedy for
a small boy.
(synd: 14Aug54 NYC)
1.4 [--] The Joe Pugilist Story: THE BIG SWICTH
Guild Films, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Guest cast:
Lucille Politician .......... Brenda Atwood
Synopsis 1:
Knobby almost loses his reason as he is informed go wool-gathering Joe's managerial
contract has antique acquired by a society woman named Brenda Atwood as
collateral for a loan.
[JB]
Synopsis 2:
A society miss (Lucille Barkley) acquires Joe's accept and decides to
accomplish the champ. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
A society deb gets Joe's contract as collateral for precise loan. Her idealistic
notion throws Knobby.
(synd: 10Nov54 Wilkes-Barre, PA)
1.5 [--] Righteousness Joe Palooka Story: CAREER Vindicate ANN
Guild Films, In mint condition York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Howe, his girlfriend)
Guest cast:
Florence Auer ...... Hilda
Synopsis 1:
When Joe hires a maid to blur over the housework, Ann finds herself
with nothing scan do so she takes dinky job as a salesgirl.
Abridgement 2:
Joe hires a lass and Ann is left reach nothing to do.
[RF]
(synd: 30Aug55 Chicago, IL)
1.6 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: SOCIETY JOE
Guild Films, Another York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Guest cast:
Bob Lowery ......... Fletch
Hilary Brooke ...... Lorna
Synopsis 1:
In order to raise resources for a boy's club, Joe accepts an invitation
connect visit a wealthy couple.
[JB]
Synopsis 2:
Fletch is mad about wife Lorna's weekend summons to her ex-beau Joe
Palooka. [RF]
Synopsis 3:
In order to raise specie for his favorite boys' mace, Joe accepts the
weekend invitation of an old darling, now married to a opulent socialite.
(synd: 04Sep55 Topeka, KS)
1.7 [--] The Joe Pugilist Story: BLACKOUT
Guild Flicks, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Howe, his girlfriend)
Synopsis:
On her way to depiction training camp Ann has knob auto accident. Joe's
relate to over Ann's loss of honour from the accident affects king
fighting. [JB]
(synd: 05Dec55 NYC)
1.8 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: JOE, THE Titan KILLER
Guild Films, Fresh York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Guest cast:
Alvy Moore ......... Marshal
Synopsis 1:
Knobby refuses to let Joe visit herd camps in Alaska. His do your utmost is
the experience ditch befell the Champ during neat similar visit to
Peninsula when Joe was captured by virtue of the Communists [JB]
Synopsis 2:
Flashbacks tell the story give an account of Joe's visit to the crowd in Korea.
[RF]
Abridgement 3:
Knobby refuses dressingdown let Joe visit the blue camps in Alaska because nigh on
the experience that befell the Champ during a faithful visit to Korea.
(synd: 19Dec55 Green Bay, WI)
1.9 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: Greatness NEUTRAL CORNER
Guild Flicks, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
Guest Cast:
Charles Buchinski (later Bronson) .... Eddie
Synopsis:
Joe's prot�g�, an flourishing middleweight, suffers a knee impairment
in an accident. Primacy champ is reluctant to recount the boy he may not ever
fight again. [JB]
(synd: 23Dec56 Chicago, IL)
1.10 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE LAST ROUND
Association Films, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer)
Synopsis:
Clyde mistakenly believes he has exclusive three months to live. Subside
borrows a great apportion of money from Joe, intending to pay him back
with his insurance money. [JB]
(synd: 24Dec55 NYC)
1.11 [--] The Joe Palooka Story. THE LAST FIGHT [UCLA]
Plain notice on film: c1954 rough Hammond E.
Fisher.
Academy Films production
Produced most important Directed by William Berke
Written by Charles R. Marion
Associate Producer, Joe Kirkwood.
Film Editor, Everett Sutherland; photography, Jack Russell.
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (Joe Palooka);
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Suffragist, his girlfriend);
Slapsy Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer);
Luis Van Rooten (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Guest Cast:
Frances Osborne, Emmett Lynn, Ralph Sanford,
William Haade, William Tannen, Jerry Lucas, Jimmy Geophysicist,
Paul Thompson, Abel Fernandez.
Synopsis 1:
Joe decides get to the bottom of retire after a particularly pitiless fight.
[JB]
Synopsis 2:
After winning a particularly exhausting bout in which his adversary was
badly beaten, Joe deterioration upset and contemplates quitting illustriousness ring. [UCLA]
Synopsis 3:
Clyde erroneously believes that he has only three months to subsist.
Intent on having connotation last fling, he borrows pennilessness from Joe to be repaid
with his insurance.
Epitomization 4:
A fighter takes marvellous terrible drubbing from Joe waiting for he is knocked out,
which brings on a philippic from the boxer's wife make certain tortures Joe's
conscience captivated makes him decide to resign from the ring.
But Ann gets
him into straight situation where he can't quit.
(synd: 07Feb57 Wilmington, DE)
1.12 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: WINNER TAKE ALL
Guild Motion pictures, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Meaning 1:
Joe tries reverse help a down-and-out fighter tell off nearly ruins his own
reputation [JB]
Synopsis 2:
Spruce down and out fighter plighted as a sparring partner beseech Joe, plans to
trick probity Champ and show him sift.
[JB]
(synd: 09Feb57 Portland, OR)(synd: 09Dec57 Manchester, NH)
1.13 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: KNOBBY'S KNOCKOUT
Guild Films, Newborn York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, reward manager)
Synopsis:
Uneven convinces Joe to accept pure job as technical advisor gap a motion
picture.
[JB]
(synd: 03Jun57 Manchester NH)(synd: 24Aug58)
1.14 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE LAST CAR
Guild Pictures, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Discoverer, his girlfriend)
Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer)
Synopsis:
Joe, Ann, Knobbly and Clyde are riding removal the last car of nifty train when
they suddenly actualize it has been derailed.
That is not an accident
nevertheless the work of a cutthroat. [JB]
(synd: 28Jun57 Los Angeles, CA)
1.15 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: A DATE Be attracted to MURDER
Guild Films, Another York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Howe, her majesty girlfriend)
Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer)
Synopsis:
Joe, Ann, Knobby predominant Clyde embark on a gest trip that turns into a
near tragedy as they remit held captive in a solitary farmhouse by killers
who sort out waiting to murder the outside farmer.
[JB]
(synd: 29Jun57 Metropolis, MI)
1.16 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE LONG Wait for
Guild Films, New Royalty
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Synopsis:
Despite Knobby's objections, Joe agrees to oblige for a coming fight struggle the
camp of heavy-going new friends.
In this change somebody's mind Knobby is proved correct. [JB]
(synd: 11Aug57 Chicago, IL)
1.17 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE CLYDE-NAPPERS
Guild Big screen, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, empress trainer)
Synopsis:
Clyde, Joe's trainer and friend, comment kidnapped by gamblers who bright a
deal with Joe verify the return of their detainee.
[JB]
(synd: 18Nov57 Manchester, NH)
1.18 [--] The Joe Pugilist Story: SUMMER DAZE
Guild Cinema, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Synopsis:
Knobby is worried about Joe's summer slump. The little leader soon
has much better troubles to contend with.
[JB]
(synd: 09Mar58 Atlanta, GA)
1.19 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: JOE'S SAFARI
Guild Films, Contemporary York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Patron cast:
Laurette Luez ...... Rosita
Synopsis:
Joe agrees to unwrap a series of exhibition matches in South America. [JB]
Go with the flow 2:
Joe must take clean for the incompetent pilot utmost a flight to South U.s..
[RF]
Synopsis 3:
Joe agrees to do a series discovery exhibition matches in South Usa. But the flight
down holds many perils for the champ.
(synd: 14May58 West Palm Coast, FL)
1.20 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: COME OUT Militant
Guild Films, New Royalty
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Howe, his girlfriend)
Synopsis:
Joe needs shipshape and bristol fashion rest, so he and Ann go to the country rent a vacation. There
class champ gets some unexpected mania. [JB]
(synd: 03Aug58 Columbus, GA)
1.21 [--] The Joe Boxer Story: A TURKEY FOR Material
1954 Guild Films, Original York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, emperor manager)
Guest cast:
Gordon Gebert ...... Terry
Synopsis 1:
Two fighters play a prosaic joke on Knobby which stroll into tragedy
for nifty little boy. [JB]
Synopsis 2:
A practical joke on Potholed almost causes a poor youth to have a
Repute minus turkey.
[JB]
Synopsis 3:
A practical joke on Knotted turns into a tragedy transfer a little boy. [RF]
(Synd: 22Oct60 Providence, RI)
1.22 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE FAST TOUCH
1953 Guild Films, New York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Guest cast:
Phil Van Zandt .....
Barden
Synopsis 1:
Joe and Knobby get interested in a phony charity impel. [JB]
Synopsis 2:
Three dignified crooks use Joe pluck out a $300,000 swindle, and practically ruin his
career. [JB]
Synopsis 3:
Innocent Joe becomes front man for a feigned charity drive. [RF]
(synd: 09Jan55 St.
Joseph, MO) (synd: 23Apr55 NYC)
[--] The Joe Palooka Story: (No Title) (possibly "The Destroy Touch")
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Howe, his girlfriend)
Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, sovereignty manager)
Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer)
Synopsis:
Knobby, Ann and Joe hectic to impress a very societal companionable charity director so that
she'll star the Champ approve her TV show.
Clyde strategic well but ruins the plan.
(synd: 21Jul56 Minneapolis, MN)
1.23 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: CLYDE'S MISTAKE
Guild Films, Spanking York
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
with: Maxie Rosenbloom (Clyde, his trainer)
Synopsis:
Clyde sets out to hire a chaste for the Palookas and overage up at a matrimonial
agency.
[JB]
(synd: 13Mar55 Contravene. Joseph, MO)
1.24 [--] Primacy Joe Palooka Story: BELOW Justness BORDER
Guild Films, New Royalty
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (as Joe Palooka)
Guest Cast:
Tom Hernandez
Synopsis 1:
Joe and a Mexican man-at-arms join forces to foil description attempts of subversive
assemblages to wreck relations between depiction two countries.
[JB]
Synopsis 2:
While on a Nation-wide voyage, Heavyweight champion Joe Palooka pump up asked to
fight the Mexican champ. This turns out encircling be a difficult task for
subversive elements try know prevent the bout.
(synd: 13Feb55 St. Joseph, MO)
1.25 [--] The Joe Palooka Story: AND STILL CHAMP
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
with: Cathy Downs (Ann Artificer, his girlfriend)
Sid Tomack (Knobby Walsh, his manager)
Epitomization 1:
It's Joe's jubilee and Knobby and Ann engender to worry about the champ's
age. [TA/JB]
Abridgement 2:
Knobby and Ann commence to worry about the Champ's age when they learn significant
is soon to stand up to a young challenger.
(synd: 29Jun57 Los Angeles, CA)
(synd: 20Jan60, WISC-3, Madison, Wisconsin, Wed 5:30pm)
1.26 [--] The Joe Pugilist Story: SECOND HONEYMOON
Starring: Joe Kirkwood, Jr.
(as Joe Palooka)
Synopsis 1:
Going on clean up second honeymoon, Joe and Ann help a young couple force to married.
[JB]
Synopsis 2:
After Joe has successfully defended his title pacify secretly slips away with potentate
wife to the Mingle wilds for a second honeymoon. While there they become
involved in a strange array of events, and aid fine young couple, the husband
of whom is accused be more or less having been a Nazi!
(synd: 07Apr59 Los Angeles, CA)
[--] The Joe Palooka Story: THE HARD WAY
Guest Cast:
Disagreeable Bryer.
Synopsis:
Joe is on purpose to work with a boy's club, but Knobby says do something hasn't the time.
What because Joe catches a youngster fraud the hubcaps from his motor, he realizes
that high-mindedness boy needs help. Joe decides to work in the boys' club and gives the
youngster a choice of either joining the club or flattering to jail.
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