Champion (1949 film)

Champion is a 1949 American film noir about boxer Midge Kelly who rises to fame...mainly by stepping on other people.
 * Directed by Mark Robson. Written by Carl Foreman, based on the story ""Champion" by Ring Lardner.

Every woman goes for a Champion. taglines

Midge Kelly

 * For the first time in my life, people cheering for me. Were you deaf? Didn't you hear 'em? We're not hitchhiking any more. We're riding!

Tommy Haley

 * This is a celebration. Midge is getting a shot at the title, and he's got a new manager... a blonde.
 * You know what a "Golem" is? I think I knew all the time I was building one.

Dialogue

 * Connie Kelly: Oh, this rotten business!
 * Midge Kelly: Awww, lay off the business. It's like any other business, only here the blood shows.

Cast

 * Kirk Douglas - Michael "Midge" Kelly
 * Marilyn Maxwell - Grace Diamond
 * Arthur Kennedy - Connie Kelly
 * Paul Stewart - Tommy Haley
 * Ruth Roman - Emma Bryce
 * Lola Albright - Palmer Harris
 * Luis Van Rooten - Jerome "Jerry" Harris
 * Harry Shannon as Lew Bryce
 * Esther Howard - Midge Kelly's mother
 * John Daheim - Johnny Dunne

Taglines

 * This is the only sport in the world where two guys get paid for doing something they'd be arrested for if they got drunk and did it for nothing.
 * Every woman goes for a Champion.