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The Mighty McGurk is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Waters released in USA on 2 january 1947 with Wallace Beery
The Mighty McGurk (1947)
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Add to a movie listThe Mighty McGurk is a 1947 film starring Wallace Beery as a boozing ex-boxer working as a bouncer in a Bowery saloon.
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Roy "Slag" McGurk (Beery), the former heavyweight boxing champion, ekes out a living as a bouncer in Mike Glenson's (Edward Arnold) saloon in the rough Bowery district of New York City. Mike has to meet two brewers for an important deal, so he sends Slag to pick up his daughter Caroline (Dorothy Patrick), returning by ship from Europe. Despite his estrangement from Johnny Burden (Cameron Mitchell), his boxing protege who joined the Salvation Army after putting one opponent in a wheelchair, Slag tells the young man. Mike had sent Caroline away to try to break up her relationship with Johnny.Actors
Wallace Beery
(Roy 'Slag' McGurk)
Dean Stockwell
(Nipper)
Edward Arnold
(Mike Glenson)
Aline MacMahon
(Mamie Steeple)
Cameron Mitchell
(Johnny Burden)
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