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Knockout Reilly (1927)

Directed by Malcolm St. Clair

Overview

A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her.  It turns out the man was a boxer named “Killer”; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn’t commit.  While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight “Killer”; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that “Killer” framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!

Length 70 minutes

Actors

Richard Dix | Mary Brian | Jack Renault | Harry Gribbon | Osgood Perkins | Lucia Backus Seger | Larry McGrath | John Merton