Seeking to capitalize on the sensation made by their new young actor John Garfield in FOUR DAUGHTERS (1938), Warner Bros. immediately cast him in this remake of the 1933 boxing-crime drama THE LIFE OF JIMMY DOLAN. Garfield plays Johnnie Bradfield, a recently crowned world champion boxer
whose public image is that of a kind, gentle, clean-cut kid who is devoted to his mother. In reality, Johnnie is a cynical, heavy-drinking womanizer who hasn't given as much as a thought to his mother in years. One morning, he awakens from a drunken stupor to read in the newspaper that he has
murdered a reporter and then gotten killed in a fiery car crash. The boxer's seedy lawyer a...
Released:
1939
Rated:
NR
Length:
92 mins