A Pit Boy's Romance (1917)

Directed by

Arthur Rooke, A.E. Coleby

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Elsewhere

IMDb

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How it feels

This silent film is about a young pit worker who becomes a boxer. He fights a match arranged by the villain.

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What happens

A Pit Boy's Romance is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by A. E. Coleby and Arthur Rooke and starring Jimmy Wilde, Tommy Noble and Arthur Rooke. The film ends with the villain's protégé losing a boxing match to the hero, a plot similar to that of Coleby's film of the previous year Kent, the Fighting Man. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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