a5c7b9f00b Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back." In "Barton Fink," the title character goes to Hollywood and ends up writing a wrestling picture, like Hemingway. The entire story is weighted with the ponderously bad notion of a movie that starts with such an idea. The Hollywood bosses care nothing about the story at all except that it have a couple fights and dancing girls and a romance. Oh, and some intrigue.<br/><br/>Well, that's what some meatgrinder produced in this case.<br/><br/>I see my comment is the first, so some story synopsis is in order.<br/><br/>Jimmy is a good fighter who looses after hearing his mother died. In the process, he permanently injures his arm. A woman in the audience soon gives him a job as bouncer in a club. He falls for the head hoochy girl, though both are swell folks.<br/><br/>But the club owner lusts after the same girl, so he arranges for the brother of that very girl to frame our fighter for theft. He had to you see because he was caught stealing $1,000 himself. So our fighter goes to prison, but doesn't mind because his girl visits frequently.<br/><br/>Meanwhile, the framing brother falls in love with the fighter's sister! He confesses to his sister and she determines to repay the $1,000 and get him off the hook. The fighter is released and thinks the girl is two-timing. That's fixed. So he arranges a fight for $1,000 if he simply goes three rounds with a famed bruiser. <br/><br/>Naturally he gets pulverized, until thinking about his great girl, then he wins! On to the club where he pays off the bad boss and slugs him as well. Both couples bask in happiness.<br/><br/>Worthy of Hemingway.<br/><br/>Ted's Evaluation – 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life. BOoooooringgggg - with a capital BO. This didn't have to take sixty four minutes because nothing ever really happens to make it a worthwhile story. No suspense, no intrigue, even the boxing scenes leave much to be desired. And as for romance - get a load of that scene between Jimmy Nolan (Regis Toomey) and Adele Landon (Dorothy Sebastian) when they both figure out they can't think of a thing to say to each other. Just painful.<br/><br/>Apparently the title of the picture has to do with the idea that a has been boxer with an injury never really gets back into the kind of fighting shape necessary to be a contender again. It also could refer to the paying audience who might have shelled out some coin to see this thing back in the day. Don't get me wrong, I go for this old time stuff and will watch virtually anything, but sometimes you just can't wait for the thing to be over.<br/><br/>In fairness, the flick did a good job of casting the principal female players. Sebastian and Greta Granstedt as Nolan's sister are a couple of pretty gals, but that's as far as it goes. I'd like to be more positive about the picture, but since I'm coming up blank I'll take Jimmy's advice when he said - "I'll think of something to say tomorrow night".
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