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Champ for a Day
First aired on Aug 15, 1953
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Genres: Crime, Comedy, Drama

An up-and-coming heavyweight fighter, George Wilson, arrives in Vulcan City, a small mid-western town over-run by racketeers, to fight a heavily-favored Frankie Sebastian. George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found. But Ma and Pa Karlsen, owners of Karlsen's Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing. He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the no-show manager who is blackmailing her brother. Dolan still hasn't arrived by the date of the fight but, to the surprise of sports-promoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido, George shows up and wins the fight. This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis, a punchy ex-fighter and a Healy henchman. This leads George to a fight with "Soldier" Freeman, whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favored-Freeman to take a dive, so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog. But Honest George has other plans.

Featured Cast: click image to view more
Alex Nicol | George Wilson
Audrey Totter | Miss Peggy Gormley
Charles Winninger | Pa Karlsen
Hope Emerson | Ma Karlsen
Joseph Wiseman | Dominic Guido
Barry Kelley | Tom Healy
Featured Crew
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John L. Russell | Director of Photography
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William A. Seiter | Director
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R. Dale Butts | Music
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Fred Allen | Editor
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Irving Shulman | Screenplay
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William A. Seiter | Producer