
Joe Palooka in the Knockout 1947
"Joe kayoes a gambling gang in his third big film hit!"
Overview
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh. Heavyweight champion Joe, after knocking out an opponent who later died in his dressing room, feels responsible and threatens to give up boxing. But the dead fighter's fiance thinks he died as the result of a drug that was given to him b
Director: Reginald Le Borg
Cast

Leon Errol
Knobby Walsh

Joe Kirkwood Jr.
Joe Palooka

Morris Carnovsky
Howard Abbott

Elyse Knox
Anne Howe

Billy House
Sam Wheeler

Trudy Marshall
Nina

Marc Lawrence
John Mitchell

Whitford Kane
Max Steele

Benny Baker
Looie

Donald MacBride
Crockett