Search a film or person :
FacebookConnectionRegistration
Killer McCoy is a american film of genre Drama directed by Roy Rowland released in USA on 1 december 1947 with Mickey Rooney

Killer McCoy (1947)

Killer McCoy
If you like this film, let us know!
Released in USA 1 december 1947
Length 1h44
Directed by
OriginUSA
Genres Drama
Rating65% 3.2926153.2926153.2926153.2926153.292615

Killer McCoy is a 1947 American film about a boxer. It is a remake of The Crowd Roars (1938).

Synopsis

Tommy McCoy is a tough New York City boy, close to his dad, Brian, a performer in vaudeville. One night while his dad's doing a song and dance for the audience as part of a boxing event, Tommy accepts a challenge to step into the ring. He knocks out his opponent.

Actors

Mickey Rooney

(Tommy McCoy / Killer McCoy)
Brian Donlevy

(Jim Caighn)
Ann Blyth

(Sheila Carrson)
James Dunn

(Brian McCoy)
Tom Tully

(Cecil Y. Walsh)
Trailer of Killer McCoy

Bluray, DVD

Streaming / VOD

Source : Wikidata

Comments


Leave comment :

Suggestions of similar film to Killer McCoy

There are 351 films with the same actors, 29 films with the same director, 61089 with the same cinematographic genres, 4182 films with the same themes (including 68 films with the same 4 themes than Killer McCoy), to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.

If you liked Killer McCoy, you will probably like those similar films :
Excuse My Dust
Directed by Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick, Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey, Jane Darwell, Monica Lewis, William Demarest
Rating61% 3.051153.051153.051153.051153.05115
Amateur inventor Joe Belden has his Indiana hometown in a tizzy over his new "horseless carriage" in 1895. It runs on gasoline, but the townspeople aren't impressed and only Joe's mom and his sweetheart Liz Bullitt are supportive.
Requiem for a Heavyweight, 1h35
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Anthony Quinn, Jack Palance, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn, Kim Hunter
Rating81% 4.051954.051954.051954.051954.05195
Après dix sept ans de carrière, le boxeur poids lourds Mountain Rivera est mis K.O. par Cassius Clay. Gravement blessé à l'oeil, il doit raccrocher les gants sous peine de perdre la vue. Avec l'aide de son fidèle soigneur, Army, il se lance alors à la recherche d'un travail. Une assistante sociale se prend d'affection pour ce colosse pathétique et offre la possibilité de devenir moniteur dans un camp de vacances. Mais son entraîneur, criblé de dettes, a d'autres projets pour lui, il entend le reconvertir en catcheur.
Slander
Slander (1957)

Directed by Roy Rowland
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Noir
Actors Van Johnson, Ann Blyth, Steve Cochran, Marjorie Rambeau, Richard Eyer, Harold J. Stone
Rating63% 3.194463.194463.194463.194463.19446
Scandal magazine editor and publisher H. R. Manley spares nobody in his efforts to sell more of his tabloid publication, "The Real Truth," making a fortune for the past two years but appalling his mother with his methods.
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Directed by Ralph Nelson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Sports films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Anthony Quinn, Jackie Gleason, Mickey Rooney, Julie Harris, Stanley Adams, Val Avery
Rating77% 3.892993.892993.892993.892993.89299
Après avoir été mis K.O. par Cassius Clay, le boxeur poids lourd Louis Rivera doit raccrocher aux gants en raison d'une grave blessure à l'œil. Aidé de son soigneur Army, il se lance à la recherche d'un travail. Il rencontre alors une assistante sociale qui se prend d'affection pour lui et qui lui propose de devenir moniteur dans un camp de vacances. Mais la situation s'avère difficile lorsque son entraîneur, qui est criblé de dettes, le pousse à se convertir en catcheur...
Trouble Along the Way, 1h50
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Sports films, American football films
Actors John Wayne, Donna Reed, Charles Coburn, Tom Tully, Tom Tully, Marie Windsor
Rating67% 3.3942553.3942553.3942553.3942553.394255
Small, obscure St. Anthony’s college, run by the Catholic church, is in financial straits and about to be closed. To save it, and himself from forced retirement, elderly rector Father Burke (Charles Coburn) hires a down and out former big time football coach, Steve Williams (John Wayne), in hopes of building a lucrative sports program. First turning down the job, Williams later accepts it when he learns that his former wife, Anne (Marie Windsor), now remarried, complained to Social Services that he is an unfit father, and plans to sue for custody of his 11-year-old daughter, Carole (Sherry Jackson). Anne’s actual aim is not to get Carole, in whom she has no interest, but rather to pressure Steve into rekindling an affair with her. Social Services worker Alice Singleton (Donna Reed), coldly prejudiced against Steve because she suffered from a relationship with her father similar to that between Steve and Carole, is preparing a report in Anne’s favor. Steve, in the meanwhile, attempts to charm Alice and win her over. Desperate to have the football program pay off, Father Burke uses his clerical connections to schedule St. Anthony’s against high profile Catholic colleges--Villanova, Notre Dame, etc.--in the upcoming season. Faced with physically inadequate players, Steve, unbeknownst to Father Burke, uses chicanery to enroll beefy star athletes as freshmen, giving St. Anthony’s a winning team. Father Burke subsequently learns of Steve’s dishonest methods and, after chiding him, disbands the sports program, knowing this would cause St. Anthony’s to close. Alice submits a report unfavorable to Steve, but subsequently, in her testimony in the court custody hearing, repudiates it after having recognized her bias and the mother's lack of honest affection for Carole. Alice also speaks against Steve, stating he isn't a properly responsible parent, and under questioning reveals she is in love with him. The judge halts proceedings, placing Carole in custody of the State, and assigning her a new case worker, until matters can be sorted out. In a surprise move, the church agrees to continue funding St. Anthony's without the football program. Even so, Burke resigns as rector believing that he had been behaving selfishly to unnecessarily prolong his position. Before leaving, though, he reinstates Steve as coach and forgives him his unscrupulous behavior because it was for love of his child. The film ends with Carole, accompanied by Alice, walking away from Steve, with the implied understanding that Steve and Alice would later marry and the three would be together as a family.
The Black Stallion, 1h54
Directed by Carroll Ballard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Hoyt Axton, Clarence Muse, Michael Higgins
Rating73% 3.69593.69593.69593.69593.6959
Alec Ramsey is aboard the steamer Drake off the coast of North Africa, where he sees a wild black stallion being forced into a makeshift stable and heavily restrained by ropes leading to his halter. Captivated by the horse, Alec later sneaks to the horse to feed him some sugar cubes, but he is caught by the horse's supposed owner, who tells him in Arabic to stay away from Shetan and shoves the boy away.
The Big Wheel, 1h32
Directed by Edward Ludwig
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Road movies
Actors Mickey Rooney, Allen Jenkins, Thomas Mitchell, Mary Hatcher, Michael O'Shea, Spring Byington
Rating56% 2.8058552.8058552.8058552.8058552.805855
Billy Coy (Mickey Rooney) from Carrell in California wants to be a race car driver. He manages to get hired as a mechanic by Arthur "Red" Stanley (Thomas Mitchell) at his garage, after mentioning that he is the son of a famous driver called "Cannonball" Coy. Billy's father died in an accident at the Indianapolis 500 a few years ago.
The Babe Ruth Story, 1h46
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography
Themes Sports films, Baseball films
Actors William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, William Frawley, Sam Levene, Robert Ellis
Rating52% 2.6065052.6065052.6065052.6065052.606505
The movie begins in 1906 at the Baltimore Waterfront, where 11-year-old George Herman Ruth, Jr. is taken away by Brother Matthias from George's abusive father to St. Mary's. When George is 18, his incredible baseball talent gets him hired to play for the Baltimore Orioles, and during the interview, he gets his "Babe" nickname. Babe becomes a successful baseball player, and is soon sold off to play for the Boston Red Sox. After a bad game, Babe wonders what went wrong at a bar, until he is helped by Claire Hogsdon that when he pitches he sticks out his tongue. He continues his success, landing a new $100,000 contract; he finds Claire, but she gives him the cold shoulder. During one game, Denny, a sick paralyzed child, watches with his father Babe Ruth play; when Babe says "hiya kid" to the kid, he miraculously "uncripples" and gets up. Babe soon becomes a player for the New York Yankees; during one game, he accidentally hurts a dog, and decides to take the dog and the little kid owner to the hospital. After arguing with the doctors that a dog is the same as a human, the dog is healed; but because Babe left a game to do this, he gets suspended from the Yankees. A depressed Babe Ruth finds himself at a bar, and amidst the crowd giving off negative vibes, he starts a fight and gets arrested. Soon, he decides to play Santa Claus at a Children's Hospital, where he runs into Claire again, visiting her nephew. She tells him that his actions affect the children of America, and Babe decides to keep that in mind. Miller Huggins, the same man who suspended Babe, fights to bring him back to the Yankees as the team has had a bad season. Babe is soon brought back, and the team wins the World Series thanks to him; with this, he and Claire get married, but soon after, Huggins dies from pyaemia. During Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, Babe gets a call from the father of a dying child, and promises him that when he goes off to bat, he will call the third shot and the ball will land at a certain spot; all of this will be for the boy. During the game, Babe does exactly that, and the boy hears the news and starts to get better. Babe retires from the Yankees at the age of 41, and takes a management position with the Boston Braves, even though they want him to play in the games despite his age. During one game, Babe gets stressed out and can't continue playing, and retires from baseball after that game. Sadly, this means he goes off contract by retiring during his time with the Braves, and is fired from anything related to baseball. Later, Babe complains of neck pain, and soon learns that he is dying of throat cancer. The news of this leads fans to send letters telling Babe that they care. The doctors decide to try a treatment on Babe with a chance that he'll survive; as Babe is taken to surgery, the narrator give words of encouragement to baseball fans, crediting Babe Ruth for America's love of the sport.