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The Kid from Kokomo

Slaphappy Fun... as a strong country boy (Kid Galahad) who was fighting for the world's championship and a shoplifting mammy! Hilarious comedy! A laff-a-minute!
May 23, 1939 · 1h 33m
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Romance
Comedy

PLOT

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.

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CAST

Pat O'Brien
William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy
Wayne Morris
Homer Baston
Joan Blondell
Doris Harvey
May Robson
Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell
Jane Wyman
Marian Bronson
Stanley Fields
Muscles Malone
Maxie Rosenbloom
Curley Bender
Sidney Toler
Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson
Directed by Lewis Seiler

DETAILS

Status
Released
Original language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Production
Warner Bros. Pictures
Country
US

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