Movies: Jack Dempsey

Mountain Rivera is a veteran heavyweight and near-champion who suddenly finds himself washed up in the only trade he knows—prizefighting. Yet, threatened by gangsters for welshing on a gambling debt, Mountain’s opportunistic manager, Maish Rennick, s...

An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title....

Wally Hogan has things going his way. He is the manager-trainer of Bullet Bradley, a fighter who has just won the lightweight championship. However, life suddenly takes a not-so-happy turn when Bullet gets drafted....

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team who gets drawn into an adventure when he stops to...

Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbar...

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies....

HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties. Watch not for dramatic scenes but for the glimpse of hi...

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg (Keith Andes) to lead the state police against corruption....

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures....

The released version of the championship boxing match between Jack Dempsey vs Georges Carpentier from July 2, 1921....

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919....

Anti-war propaganda musical set on an ocean liner....

Legendary boxing match between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali in Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971....

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation....

The perfect body as an object of cult worship. Based on the mass sports and body worship movement of the 1920s, the film propagates physical training and shows in stylized documentary scenes aspects of physical hygiene, gymnastics, sports and dancing...

The BBC produced “Kings of The Ring – History of Heavyweight Boxing 1919-1990” celebrates boxing’s marquee division. Comprehensive and nonjudgmental, it begins with Jess Willard’s victory over Jack Johnson in Cuba and runs through the Mike Tyson era....

Mel Allen hosts this look at Babe Ruth's life and career, focusing primarily on Ruth's years with the New York Yankees....

Ed Sullivan shows night spots all over New York in this movie, joking and listening to stories the patrons tell....

A poor sap tries to impress his girl by fighting the great boxing champion Jack Dempsey....

A documentary film about the life and career of one-time Heavyweight boxing champion of the world Max Baer....