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Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981), better known as Joe Louis, was an American professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from 1937 to 1949. He is considered to be one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis helped elevate boxing from a nadir in popularity in the post-Jack Dempsey era by establishing a reputation as an honest, hardworking fighter at a time when the sport was dominated by gambling interests. Louis' championship reign lasted 140 consecutive months, during which he participated in 27 championship fights, 26 championship fights during his reign; the 27th, against Ezzard Charles, was a challenge to Charles' Heavyweight title and so is not included in Louis' reign. All in all, Joe was victorious in 25 successful title defenses, a record for the heavyweight division. In 2005, Louis was ranked as the #1 heavyweight of all-time by the International Boxing Research Organization, and was ranked #1 on The Ring's list of the 100 Greatest Punchers of All-Time.
Maximillian Adolph Otto Siegfried Schmeling (September 28, 1905 – February 2, 2005) was a German boxer who was heavyweight champion of the world between 1930 and 1932. His two fights with Joe Louis in the 1936 and 1938 were worldwide social events because of their national associations. He was born in the Pomeranian town of Klein Luckow.
Starting his professional career in 1924, Schmeling came to the United States in 1928 and, after a ninth-round technical knockout of Johnny Risko, became a sensation. He became the first to win the heavyweight championship (at that time vacant) by disqualification in 1930, after opponent Jack Sharkey knocked him down with a low blow in the fourth round. A rematch in 1932 saw Sharkey gaining the title from Schmeling by a controversial fifteen-round split decision. In 1933, Schmeling lost to Max Baer by a tenth-round TKO. The loss left people believing that Schmeling was past his prime. Meanwhile, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party took over control in Germany, and Schmeling came to be viewed as a 'Nazi puppet.'
Actors: Uwe Boll (actor), Rolf Peter Kahl (actor), Heino Ferch (actor), Uwe Boll (producer), Shawn Williamson (producer), Gero Brugmann (miscellaneous crew), Uwe Boll (director), Detlef Bothe (actor), Arved Birnbaum (actor), Christian Kahrmann (actor), Vili Matula (actor), Klaus Schindler (actor), Timo Berndt (writer), Dan Clarke (producer), Stefan Gebelhoff (actor),
Plot: Pomeranian (NE German) boxer Max Schmelling, a fair, courageous gentleman, becomes world champion and a national hero in the early 1930s, winning the hand of singer Anny Ondra. Just for loosing against younger, fitter colored American Joe Louis, the Nazi regime lifts Max's privileges and sends him to the front, hoping he'll be killed in action. Yet he survives the conquest of Crete and by freeing a British prisoner unwittingly saves his own skin when after the Soviet conquest of his home region, Max is nearly taken PoW. He starts all over, although rather too old, with remarkable results.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, anti-semitic-slur, anti-semitism, archive-footage, athlete, bare-chested-male, berlin-germany, boxer, boxing-matchActors: Brad Krevoy (producer), Til Schweiger (actor), Bruce Weitz (actor), Jürgen Schornagel (actor), Gerhard Schmidt (producer), Jeff Beal (composer), David Paymer (actor), Peter Pauli (actor), Richard Roundtree (actor), Rolf Kanies (actor), August Zirner (actor), Brad Krevoy (producer), Wilfried Hochholdinger (actor), Pimes Doerfler (miscellaneous crew), Cassandra Barbour (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport, War,Actors: Wayne Robson (actor), George C. Scott (actor), J. Winston Carroll (actor), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Bill Lake (actor), Shawn Lawrence (actor), Kenneth McGregor (actor), Richard Fitzpatrick (actor), Dean Hagopian (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Judd Hirsch (actor), Howard Jerome (actor), Jon Favreau (actor), Penelope Ann Miller (actress), Aron Tager (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,Actors: Ruby Dee (actress), Noble Willingham (actor), Andre Braugher (actor), Steven Williams (actor), Glenn Morshower (actor), Bruce Dern (actor), Daniel Stern (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), Dale Dye (actor), Jim Beaver (actor), Paul Dooley (actor), Michael Greene (actor), Gary Grubbs (actor), Frank von Zerneck (producer), Robert M. Sertner (producer),
Plot: The early life of the future baseball star is told here. Jackie Robinson was a young college student and athlete who learned never to take racist attacks lying down. This eventually gets him into trouble when he is drafted in World War II and assigned to a Texas training camp deep in the racist south. The film climaxes when Jackie Robinson must face a court-martial for insubordination when he refused to go to the back of the bus when the white bus driver ordered him, knowing that he was in his rights to do so.
Keywords: 1940s, african-american, army-life, character-name-in-title, civil-rights, court-martial, courtroom, racism, world-war-twoActors: Vincent Gardenia (actor), Joyce King (miscellaneous crew), Ernest Gold (composer), Paul Picerni (actor), Kathleen O'Malley (actress), Gene LeBell (actor), Bill Baldwin (actor), Tony Devon (actor), Richard Herd (actor), Michael Pataki (actor), Booth Colman (actor), Tony Lo Bianco (actor), Joe Tornatore (actor), Carmen Filpi (actor), Belinda Montgomery (actress),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Sport,Actors: Bill Conti (composer), Robert Michael Lewis (director), Joseph Campanella (actor), Rod McCary (actor), Clement von Franckenstein (actor), Stephen Roberts (actor), Britt Ekland (actress), Julius Harris (actor), Bernie Casey (actor), Norman Alden (actor), Stephen Macht (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), Frank Slaten (actor), Sidney Katz (editor), Al Lewis (actor),
Genres: Drama,Actors: John Hart (actor), Louis Hayward (actor), Edgar Bergen (actor), Lou Antonio (actor), Larry Hankin (actor), Michael Ansara (actor), Dick Clark (actor), Xavier Cugat (actor), Andy Devine (actor), Busby Berkeley (actor), Fritz Feld (actor), James Brown (actor), Leo Gorcey (actor), Huntz Hall (actor), George Jessel (actor),
Plot: An athlete, a campus militant, a black model, and an American Indian are picked by a computer (shaped like a woman) to form a rock group called the Phynx and go on tour in Albania where American show biz people have been kidnapped by Communists. Some of the stars that the phony band rescues: Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O'Sullivan (the most famous movie Tarzan and Jane), Leo Gorcey and Huntz Hall (the Bowery Boys), Ed Sullivan, James Brown, Colonel Sanders, Guy Lombardo, Andy Devine, Ruby Keeler, Edgar Bergen, Butterfly McQueen, Jay Silverheels (Tonto), Rudy Vallee, Xavier Cugat, Trini Lopez, Dick Clark, Richard Pryor, Harold "Oddjob" Sakata, George Jessel, and Rhona Barrett. Warner Bros. Studios thought it was so bad that they decided at the last minute not to release it!
Keywords: albania, castle, communist, computer, copenhagen-denmark, espionage, kidnapping, london-england, orgy, recordingActors: Sydney Newman (producer), Lorne Greene (actor), Eldon Rathburn (composer), Joe Louis (actor), Jack Olsen (editor), Jack Olsen (writer), Jack Olsen (director), William Lyon Mackenzie King (actor), Ole Olsen (actor), Chic Johnson (actor), John K. Rooke (writer), Barbara Ann Scott (actress), Harry Pachter (actor), Charlie Pachter (actor), Sara Pachter (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Family, Short,Actors: Robert Kent (actor), John Indrisano (actor), John Kelly (actor), Warren Hymer (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Jeff Corey (actor), Jack Chefe (actor), Fred Aldrich (actor), Leon Errol (actor), Eduardo Ciannelli (actor), Pat Flaherty (actor), Elisha Cook Jr. (actor), Eddie Gribbon (actor), Sam Hayes (actor), Donald Kerr (actor),
Plot: In this first entry of the Monogram features based on the comic-strip character created by Ham Fisher (while not the first use of the character on the screen), fight manager and promoter Knobby Walsh trains Al Costa to fight for the heavyweight championship, but gangster Florini, with the help of his henchmen, Lefty and Curly, takes the budding champion away from him. Knobby begins the search for a new fighter by taking four fighters and handler Smoky on a tour of tank towns. He finds Joe Palooka, a natural boxer, in a small town. Anne Howe, a society girl passing through town, helps persuade the shy-and-gentle farm boy to sign a contract with Knobby. Joe wins a string of sensational matches and, while training for the championship match with the recently-crowned champion Costa, Anne invites him to a party where her snobby society friend Ronnie Brewster makes a fool of Joe. The latter's training suffers as a result of this and estrangements from Knobby and Anne, but he rebuffs the efforts of Florini to get him to throw the fight.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, announcer, archive-footage, arena, b-movie, barnActors: Alan Hale (actor), Richard Farnsworth (actor), Martin Faust (actor), Jimmy Conlin (actor), Herbert Anderson (actor), Richard Crane (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Dan Dailey (actor), Murray Alper (actor), John Daheim (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Charles Butterworth (actor), Frank Coghlan Jr. (actor), Richard Irving (actor), Eddie Hall (actor),
Plot: In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal life he has problems, because he refuses to marry his fiancée until the war is over.
Keywords: based-on-stage-musical, basic-training, blackface, famous-song, man-dressed-as-woman, military, minstrel-show, orchestral-music-score, patriotism, showAnd I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
He's not a healer, he's a pain
But I can be the one to make it better
Like a cloud baby, he's the rain
But I can be the one to change the weather
So go out and dry your eyes
There's no more tears to cry
It's just about you and I, forever (yeah)
And I know your trust is broken in two
Even though your trust is broken in two
Girl I promise I will do, whatever I can do
To keep you (oh oh)
CHORUS
Keep you
I promise to keep you
I will keep you
I promise to keep you
I know he hurt you, like a knife
But I can be the one to bring you back to life
He's a cheater, he's a liar
But you can trust me when I say that I'll treat you right
So go out and dry your eyes
There's no more tears to cry
It's just you and I, forever (oh)
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
I will, I will
And I know your trust is broken in two
Even though your trust is broken in two
Girl I promise I will do, whatever I can do
To keep you (oh oh)
CHORUS
Girl I promise I will do, whatever I can do
To keep you (oh oh)
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will
And I promise I will be there, you know I will