| Kid Galahad | |
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| Directed by | Michael Curtiz |
| Produced by | Samuel Bischoff Hal B. Wallis Jack L. Warner |
| Written by | Seton I. Miller Francis Wallace |
| Starring | Edward G. Robinson Bette Davis Humphrey Bogart |
| Music by | M.K. Jerome Jack Scholl |
| Cinematography | Tony Gaudio |
| Editing by | George Amy |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 26, 1937 (premiere) |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Kid Galahad is a 1937 prizefighter film starring Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. The movie was directed by Michael Curtiz.
The film was remade in 1962 as an Elvis Presley musical. The earlier version was re-titled The Battling Bellhop for television distribution in order to avoid confusion with the Presley remake. It was also remade, with a different setting, as The Wagons Roll at Night, also with Bogart in 1941.
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Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris) is a sweet and naïve young man. He is working as a bellhop so that he can save enough money to buy a farm. However, during his first night at work, while trying to protect “Fluff” Phillips (Bette Davis), he inadvertently becomes involved in a fight. Soon, he is part of the dangerous world of boxing and is called Kid Galahad.
Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) is his tough talking manager. Although he initially views Galahad as a joke, he soon realizes that Galahad has potential. He attempts to use Galahad to retaliate against Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart), a racketeer who sets up a fixed championship bout.
Complications soon emerge when both “Fluff,” Nick’s girlfriend, and Marie Donati (Jane Bryan), Nick’s sister, fall in love with Galahad. Infuriated, Nick turns against his boxer… leading to a tragic conclusion.
According to his New York Times obituary of December 3, 1975, the playwright and screenwriter Lawrence Riley, famous for his Broadway hit Personal Appearance (basis of Mae West's Go West, Young Man), contributed to Kid Galahad's screenplay, although uncredited.