For His Mother's Sake (1922)

Genre

boxing film

Country

United States

How it feels

A silent boxing film from 1922 starring heavyweight champion Jack Johnson. It focuses on a man's efforts to help his mother through boxing matches.

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What happens

For His Mother's Sake is a 1922 American silent film, starring heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. It was a Blackburn-Velde Pictures production distributed by Fidelity Pictures Company. The film opened in January 1922 at the New Douglas Theater at Lexington Avenue and 142nd Street in Harlem. It is believed there was only one five reel print of the movie, due to the studio owners seizing the negative when the film's producers failed to pay their bills. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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