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Knockout Reilly

(1927)

April 16, 1927 1h 10m
80%
TMDB Score

Overview

A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!

Malcolm St. Clair

Director

Top Billed Cast

RD

Richard Dix

Dundee 'Knockout' Reilly

MB

Mary Brian

Mary Malone

JR

Jack Renault

Killer Agerra

HG

Harry Gribbon

Pat Malone

OP

Osgood Perkins

Spider Cross

LBS

Lucia Backus Seger

Mrs. Reilly

LM

Larry McGrath

Kewpie Dugan

JM

John Merton

Buck Lennard