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I hadn't seen this movie in almost 45 years.and just recently someone happened to mentioned it ,
so I checked to see maybe if it was on youtube and it was, someone uploaded it just a few days ago !
check it out in the beginning to see Joe Louis and some other famous boxers of the time.

Palooka 1934 version

Jimmy Durante as Nobby Walsh:

"Boy, fortune is smack’in us on the head with a Champaign bottle, we’re launched, can’t you see your name on the billboards, Joe Palooka, son of the grand old champ. Boy I’m gunna exploit ya, pump up the headlines, make you a champ-pean like your dear old dad, I can see it now, you’re in the ring trading punches, the other guy is generous and he gives two for one, he clips on the chin, but I’m undaunted, then comes the crude–ical moment, ya lay the rat low, foul they cry, but we’re try-um-pent!"

Caractacus wrote: ↑08 Feb 2019, 18:09 I hadn't seen this movie in almost 45 years.and just recently someone happened to mentioned it ,
so I checked to see maybe if it was on youtube and it was, someone uploaded it just a few days ago !
check it out in the beginning to see Joe Louis and some other famous boxers of the time.

Great footage of Louis on the speed bag; love the fact that he gives Louis a pass, not too impressed. - Leon Errol makes for a pretty good Nobby Walsh too.

notice how the camera got Joe Louis full body form as he was punching the speed bag
where you can see his foot and leg motions stepping into the punches ?
usually when someone is filmed punching a speed-bag back then it from the waist up.
btw When Joe Louis arrived in New York in 1935 to fight Primo Carnera,his managers had him booked for one week
at the Harlem Opera House ,that was located on 127th street and 7th and 8th Avenues NYC(demolished in 1959)
The act opened with him boxing 2 rounds with Seal Harris (260 lbs)
Then he played straightman with comdian Dusty Fletcher in a comedy skit
then he skipped roped and then joined a line of chorus girls were he sort of danced with them.
and thenhit the speed bag with the house band played "Anchors Aweigh" and the finale was he punched the bag out into the audience.