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The Knockout (1925 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Knockout' is a 1925 silent film drama directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Milton Sills. It was based on the novel 'The Come-Back' by Morris DeCamp Crawford. It was produced by and released by First National Pictures.[http://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/K/Knockout1925.html Progressive Silent Film List: 'The Knockout'] at silentera.com[http://www.afi.com/members/catalog/DetailView.aspx?s=&Movie=10106 The AFI Catalog of Feature Films: 'The Knockout']
Plot
As described in a film magazine reviews, Sandy Donlin, worlds light heavyweight boxing champion, hurts his right arm and is told by his doctor that, if he uses the arm in the fight, he will never use it again. Because he thinks the arm useless, he accepts the offer of the lumberman Parker to become his manager in a Canadian lumber camp. Donlin accepts because he has just met and fallen in love with Jean Farot, daughter of Parkers rival. Parker wants Donlin at the camp because he can whip Jack Ducane, the foreman for Farot, who has blocked the efforts of Parkers men to jam Farots logs. Ducane accuses Donlin of getting the Farot loggers drunk to cause them to jam the logs. Donlin learns in the ensuing fight that the right arm has healed. Parkers men blow up Farots dam and jam the river with logs. Donlin offers to break the jam and unsuccessfully tries dynamite. Jean loses faith in Donlins love because she thinks he is in the plot against her father, who is in Parkers debt. Donlin goes to New York, wins another championship fight, pays Farots debt, and permanently establishes himself in Jeans favor.
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Preservation
With no prints of 'The Knockout' located in any film archives,[http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.6712/default.html The Library of Congress / FIAF American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: 'The Knockout'] it is now lost film. Just the trailer survives in the Library of Congress collection.'Catalog of Holdings The American Film Institute Collection and The United Artists Collection at The Library of Congress', [trailer only] p. 98 c.1978 the American Film Institute
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