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World in My Corner is a american film of genre Drama directed by Jesse Hibbs released in USA on 1 march 1956 with Audie Murphy
World in My Corner (1956)
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Add to a movie listWorld in My Corner is a 1956 film starring Audie Murphy as a boxer. It was one of the few non-Westerns Murphy made in his career.
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Tommy Shea (Audie Murphy), a boxer from Jersey City, is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson (Jeff Morrow). He falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy (Barbara Rush) and decides to work for crooked fight promoter Harry Cram to earn the money to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed.Actors
Audie Murphy
(Tommy Shea)
Barbara Rush
(Dorothy Mallison)
John McIntire
(Dave Bernstein)
Jeff Morrow
(Robert T. Mallison)
Tommy Rall
(Ray Kacsmerek)
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