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The Life of Jimmy Dolan: Directed by Archie Mayo. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee. Prizefighter Jimmy Dolan accidentally kills a man at a party and escapes.
The Life of Jimmy Dolan, released in the UK as The Kid's Last Fight, is a 1933 American pre-Code film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young. John Wayne has a small supporting role as a frightened boxer.
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In the pre-Code drama The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933), Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stars as a champion boxer who accidentally kills a newspaper reporter. He runs, taking on the identity of a man who died in a car crash and winding up at a home for crippled orphans.
Dolan panics and skips town, winding up on a farm that serves as a home for disabled children run by kindhearted Peggy (Loretta Young). As the cynical Dolan falls for Peggy, he begins to change...
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Champion boxer Jimmy Dolan has cultivated a wholesome image for himself, but he's a boozer and womanizer behind the scenes. Intoxicated at a party, he punches a reporter who threatens to expose his hypocrisy, and accidentally kills him.
THE LIFE OF JIMMY DOLAN (Warner Brothers, 1933), directed by Archie L. Mayo, is not so much a life story in a biographical sense as Warners' later production of THE LIFE OF EMILE ZOLA (1937), but one about a boxer, unable to clear himself of a murder charge, hiding from the law.
