Knockout Reilly
MovieTitle | Knockout Reilly |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Apr 16, 1927 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Malcolm St. Clair |
Production country | United States of America |
Production companies | Famous Players-Lasky Corporation |
Revenue | $380,400 |
Run time | 70 min. |
A Malcolm St. Clair silent boxing sports romantic love triangle prison melodrama about a steel worker who saves a girl in a bar fight by knocking out the man coming on to her. It turns out the man was a boxer named "Killer"; so our steel worker becomes a boxer, but is then arrested for a crime he didn't commit. While in prison, he continues training, so that when he gets out, he can fight "Killer"; he is losing the fight, but his girl tells him that "Killer" framed him, which gives him the drive to knock his opponent out in the final round!