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.[1]
World in My Corner | |
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Directed by | Jesse Hibbs |
Screenplay by | Jack Sher |
Based on | Jack Sher Joseph Stone (Based on a Story by) |
Produced by | Aaron Rosenberg |
Starring | Audie Murphy Barbara Rush |
Cinematography | Maury Gertsman |
Edited by | Milton Carruth |
Color process | Black and white |
Production company | Universal Pictures |
Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 82 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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.
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.[6][7] 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."[8]
According to Murphy's biographer, the film "didn't do anything at the box office".[8]
Films directed by Jesse Hibbs | |
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