Screenplay: Ring Lardner

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Kirk Douglas · Marilyn Maxwell · Arthur Kennedy · Paul Stewart

Plot An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. One of the all-time great boxing movies....

Direction A. Edward Sutherland

Cast Jack Oakie · Frances Dee · Wynne Gibson · Harry Akst

Plot Aspiring lyricist Fred Stevens leaves Schenectady for New York City, with hopes of making it big in the songwriting business.

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Thomas Meighan · Lila Lee · Paul Kelly · Hallie Manning

Plot Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate, in the midst of...

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Henry Morgan · Rudy Vallee · Bill Goodwin · Hugh Herbert

Direction Ray Enright

Cast Joe E. Brown · Olivia de Havilland · Ruth Donnelly · Roscoe Karns

Plot Rookie pitcher Francis "Ike" Farrell comes seemingly out of nowhere to help the Cubs go for the pennant. His idiosyncratic ways, which include excuses and alibis for everything, drive his...

Direction David Pressman · Alex Segal · Ralph Warren · Yul Brynner

Cast Marc Connelly · George Keane · Don Hanmer · Nancy Franklin

Plot TV Series (1948-1950). 2 seasons. 65 episodes. Produced by the ABC as its television network was just getting off the ground, this program was one of the first dramatic series...

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Joe E. Brown · Patricia Ellis · Frank McHugh · Claire Dodd

Plot Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only...