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The Life of Jimmy Dolan is a american film of genre Drama directed by Archie Mayo released in USA on 3 june 1933 with Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
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Add to a movie listThe Life of Jimmy Dolan, released in the UK as The Kid's Last Fight, is a 1933 American Pre-Code film starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Loretta Young. John Wayne has a small supporting role as a frightened boxer. It was remade in 1939 as They Made Me a Criminal.
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Champion de boxe à la carrière florissante considérant l'humanité avec dédain, Jimmy Dolan tue accidentellement un journaliste lors d'une soirée. Il prend la fuite avant l'arrivée des secours et de la police. Un accident lui permet de passer pour mort. Devenu un anonyme, il trouve refuge dans une ferme qui abrite un institut pour enfants handicapés. Là, au contact de ces enfants, Jimmy perd son cynisme et se prend d'affection pour eux et pour madame Moore, qui dirige l'établissement. Mais un jour, un inspecteur de police le reconnaît. Jimmy doit alors prendre une décision difficile : s'échapper à nouveau ou se rendre et assumer ses actes passés.Actors
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(Jimmy)
Loretta Young
(Peggy)
Aline MacMahon
(Auntie)
Guy Kibbee
(Phlaxer)
John Wayne
(Smith)
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