Joe Palooka in the Big Fight

In this installment in the Joe Palooka boxing series from Monogram, Joe's the subject of many dirty tricks. FIrst, a guy comes to the guy pretending to be a down and out fighter needing the money by sparring with Joe...and after whispering to Joe to 'take it easy', he knocks the champ down with a sucker punch...and lots of folks with cameras are on hand to photograph it. Soon, all sorts of people are pushing to have this guy take on Joe in his next fight. Eventually, when the two are matched up, all sorts of dirty tricks take place....and it's obvious some sort of organized crime is afoot in order to control the outcome of the fight. Using a bad B-movie cliche, Joe escapes police custody after he's found with a corpse--and he and Knobby seek out who is behind all this and why. What follows is a lot of punching.

While the plot is a bit hard to believe, it is interesting and enjoyable to watch. After all, it is different and viewers don't want to just see Joe box! Worth seeing and nice to see Leon Errol back playing Knobby, as for some odd reason, William Frawley played him in the previous film.