The Kid from Kokomo

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.

Cast

Pat O'Brien

as William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy

Wayne Morris

as Homer Baston

Joan Blondell

as Doris Harvey

May Robson

as Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell

Jane Wyman

as Marian Bronson

Stanley Fields

as Muscles Malone

Maxie Rosenbloom

as Curley Bender

Sidney Toler

as Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson

Edward Brophy

as Eddie Black

Ward Bond

as Ladislaw Klewicki

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