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Broadway Billy (1926)

Broadway Billy poster
Directed by
Harry Joe Brown
Genre
silent film, boxing film
Country
United States
Runtime
55 min
Rating
9.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young boxer tries to make it in the big city. The film follows his rise in the boxing world in 1920s America.

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What happens

Broadway Billy is a 1926 American silent sports film directed by Harry Joe Brown and starring Billy Sullivan, Virginia Brown Faire and Jack Herrick. The film was once thought to be lost, but as of February 2021 it was noted by the Library of Congress as recently found. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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