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Fighting Fools: Directed by Reginald Le Borg. With Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Frankie Darro. The gang teams up with a fighter to break up a fight-fixing racket.
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- Drama, Comedy
- Reginald Le Borg
- 1949-03-17
Fighting Fools is a 1949 comedy film starring The Bowery Boys. The film was released on April 17, 1949 by Monogram Pictures and is the thirteenth film in the series. Plot [ edit ]
- Jan Grippo
- Edward J. Kay
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Rent Fighting Fools on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. At a New York City boxing arena, the Bowery Boys are stunned when their friend, up-and-coming young boxer Jimmy Higgins (Bert Conway ...
- Comedy
- Leo Gorcey
- Reginald Leborg
Synopsis. Slip Mahoney and the rest of the Bowery Boys are working as concession attendants at a New York boxing arena, hawking programs, hot dogs, drinks and popcorn. The main event is a bout between Joey Prince and the gang's friend, Jimmy Higgins, "The Battler from the Bowery," who will get a shot at the title if he wins that night.
Fighting Fools (1949) has a much more serious tone than the usual slapstick hijinks seen in the other BB movies. It opens with the Boys working as vendors at a boxing match. Their friend, Jimmy Higgins, takes a bad beating beating and dies in the ring. Sach and Slip find Jimmy's brother, Johnny, to tell him the bad news.
The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek out his older brother, Johnny, a former boxer who gave up the sport rather than go crooked, and help train him to get back in the ring. They try to get him a shot at the title, and when they do the same crooked gangsters that were behind Jimmy's ...
