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World in My Corner
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Wikipedia article
'World in My Corner' is a 1956 American film noir drama sport film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy and Barbara Rush. It was one of the few non-Westerns Murphy made in his career.[http://www.audiemurphy.com/movies17.htm 'World in My Corner'] at Audie Murphy Memorial Site
Plot
Tommy Shea (Audie Murphy), a boxer from Jersey City, is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson (Jeff Morrow). He falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy (Barbara Rush) and decides to work for crooked fight promoter Harry Cram to earn the money to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed.
Cast
* Audie Murphy as Tommy Shea
* Barbara Rush as Dorothy Mallinson
* Jeff Morrow as Robert T. Mallinson
* John McIntire as Dave Bernstein
* Tommy Rall as Ray Kacsmerek
* Howard St. John as Harry Cram
* Chico Vejar as Al Carelli
* Steve Ellis as TV announcer
* Art Aragon as fighter
* Dani Crayne as Doris
* Jimmy Lennon as Ring Announcer (as James F. Lennon)
* Cisco Andrade as Parker
* Harold 'Tommy' Hart as Stretch Caplow (as H. Tommy Hart, also acted as the film's technical adviser)
* Sheila Bromley as Mrs. Mallinson
Production
The film was Murphy's first following the tremendous box office success of 'To Hell and Back' (1955) and used the same producer and director as that film. Murphy fights with several real life boxers on screen, including Chico Vejar, Art Aragon and Cisco Andrade. Andrade later praised Murphy as being "the first actor I ever saw who wasn't afraid of getting hit hard in a prize fight scene."Don Graham, 'No Name on the Bullet', N.Y.: Viking, 1989 p263
Response
According to Murphy's biographer, the film "didn't do anything at the box office".
References
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