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Right Cross (1950)

 
After more than promising debut in "The Asphalt Jungle" (1950), the MGM made Marilyn shot in two other movies, which non of them emphasized her.

In this story mixing love and boxing, the character of Dick Powell tried and picked up Marilyn, but she even doesn't appear in the credits. 

 

Poster

Production

 

CREDITS

MGM, Blacn & White

Runtime : 90 mn

Release date : November 15, 1950.

 

Director : John Sturges

Producer : Armand Deutsch

Screenplay : Charles Schnee

Director of photography : Norbert Brodine

Music : David Raskin.

 

CAST

June Allyson - Pat O'Malley

Dick Powell - Rick Garvey

Ricardo Montalban - Johnny Monterez

Lionel Barrymore - Sean O'Malley

Barry Kelley - Allan Goff

Teresa Celli - Marina Monterez

Mimi Aguglia - Mom Monterez

Marianne Stewart - Audrey

John Gallaudet - Phil Tripp

Wally Maher - first reporter

Larry Keating - second reporter

Kenneth Tobey -  third reporter

Bert Davidson - fourth reporter

Marilyn Monroe - Dusky Ledoux (uncredited).

 

TECHNICAL CREW

Cedric Gibbons - art director

James Scognamillo - art director.

 

SYNOPSIS

Ricardo Montalban embodied the professional boxing champion Johnny Monterez, victim of discrimination because of his Mexican origins.

For love for his coach's daughter, Pat (June Allyson), Johnny refuses an important fight organized by Allan Goff (Barry Kelley).

The sports reporter Rick Gavery (Dick Powell) is Johnny's best friend; he takes to drink and to women when he realizes that the woman of his life is in love with the boxer not with the scribbler. Coming on the scene of Marilyn, who takes part in the party in town.

Fearing that his boxer career would be ruined because of an injury of his right hand, Johnny realizes that the best way to take care of Pat and her father, O'Malley (Lionel Barrymore), is to accept Goff's fight and to hit the jackpot. Unfortunately, learning his betrayal, the old O'Malley dies of a heart attack.

Ignoring his real motives, Pat accuses Johnny.

Then Johnny gives his last fight for O'Malley... and looses it. Back in the locker-room, he fights with Rick and deals such a blow to him that he irreparably damages his right hand.

As Johnny seems to have lost everything, Pat realized that he has done all those things for her, and Rick shows that he's not vindictive.

 


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