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Madison Square Garden (1932)

Madison Square Garden poster
Directed by
Harry Joe Brown
Genre
drama film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 14m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 3 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A boxer climbs the ranks at Madison Square Garden while dealing with personal and professional conflicts. Real-life athletes and sportswriters appear as themselves.

old-fashioneddramaticfast-pacedsportynostalgicromantic

What happens

Madison Square Garden is a 1932 American Pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Joe Brown and written by Thomson Burtis, Allen Rivkin and P.J. Wolfson. The film stars Jack Oakie, Thomas Meighan, Marian Nixon, William Collier, Sr., ZaSu Pitts, Lew Cody and William "Stage" Boyd. The film was released on November 4, 1932, by Paramount Pictures. Actual boxers like Jack Johnson, Billy Papke and Tom Sharkey and actual sports journalists like Paul Gallico, Grantland Rice and Damon Runyon appear in the story as themselves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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