In europe, adolf hitler became more belligerent, annexing austria and the. At first joe states he doesnt need one, but chaunceys wife explains that theyre broke because chauncey hasnt been able to get a fight in 10 years. His name was joe palookaand he was a comic strip character. I was assistant manager and new director of a radio station licensed to the city of nanticoke which was know as. Joe palooka meets humphrey, 1950, movie poster midcentury. If you have an identical or similar to this auction item, please call or contact us to discuss. Pruney takes humphrey to the barn dance, where he humiliates her by bringing a donkey and a hundred sandwiches. While on a nationwide tour, heavyweight champion joe palooka is asked to fight the mexican champ. The definitive the story of joe palooka radio log with alan reed. Secondary characters included joe s manager knobby walsh, society girl ann howe, mute kid character little max and blacksmith humphrey pennyworth.
The original plaque, bronze on a stone base, was stolen in or around the early or the mid 1970s. Joe palooka was the most successful sports comic strip ever, its title character a dumb but goodhearted boxer. The other 10 are each for a different character and these are captain flight, the blue flame, red rocket, torpedoman, the black cobra, secret agent 2b3, dan and dee, zaan of the jungle, deep sea dawson, rock raymond. It seems incongruous today as hardly anyone remembers joe palooka, but in 1948at the dawn of the. Oolitic, indiana joe palooka was the most successful sports comic strip ever, its title character a dumb but goodhearted boxer. A gigantic statue of comic book hero joe palooka stands in the little town of oolitic, indiana. Gentleman joe palooka 1946 joe palooka in the knockout 1947 joe palooka in fighting mad 1948 joe palooka in winner take all 1948 joe palooka in the big fight. Knobby walsh manages the champ, but unless he agrees to promoter gordon rogers demand for 30 percent of the profits, rogers intends to see to it that joe palooka cant get another fight. But when a shady boxing manager jimmy durante discovers joe s natural boxing talent, joe. Joe s rich and unscrupulous uncle charlie sees a way to capitalize on joe s good fortune. Joe palooka stuart erwin is a naive young man whose father pete robert armstrong was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused joes mother mayme marjorie rambeau to leave him and to take young joe to the country to raise him.
Knobby walsh, who manages world heavyweight champion joe palooka, becomes indignant when gordon rogers, who works for a shady boxing syndicate, demands thirty percent of joe s. Statue of joe palooka oolitic, indiana atlas obscura. The joe palooka story, popularly known simply as joe palooka, was a 1954 syndicated television series starring kirkwood and featuring former boxing champion maxie rosenbloom as humphrey pennyworth. Vintage tijuana bibles for sale from the rotenberg. From the name of the comicstrip prizefighter joe palooka. Humphrey takes the famous route 66 west to be in a joe palooka movie, but has misadventures while traveling through the desert. The strip was adapted to a shortlived 15minute cbs radio series, 12 featurelength films chiefly from monogram pictures, nine vitaphone film shorts, a 1954 syndicated. Bedevilled 1955 stream deutsch, bedevilled 1955 online anschauen, bedevilled 1955 kostenlos online sehen.
Joe palooka made his movie debut in palooka 1934 with stuart erwin in the title role. The topography of the land is gently rolling, roads are good, shopping is good, real estate offers highend homes to affordable housing. Palooka also featured robert armstrong, lupe velez, jimmy durante and thelma todd. The joe palooka strip was very popular, and ran in papers all over the country. Joe palooka, the heavyweight boxing hero of ham fishers cartoon strip that ran from 1921.
At a campaign picnic, a child actress hired by rogers rushes up to the unmarried candidate, crying daddy. Even if you cant locate the particular cincinnati of your youth, you can probably find some papers wherever you are living now that have archives on microfilm back to the 1950 s. Joe palooka no 8 1953 australian fire rescue cover. Joe palooka oolitic, indiana epic beings and creatures. Here is the true story of the current joe palooka monument. Airing every tuesday and thursday at the dinner hour, the story of joe palooka launched with a huge promotion throughout the u. Joe palooka statue, oolitic, indiana roadside america.
Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 movie poster. Joe palooka, champ is a 1946 american film featuring the popular comicstrip boxer joe palooka. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance authentic original 10 x 8 movie poster. High resolution movie poster image for joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950. Only donators and contributors can download this hd poster. Palooka exemplified the upright sports hero in an age that embraced decent moral character. Example of joe palooka sunday by ham fisher and tony di preta, december 3, year unknown.
Joes creator, ham fisher, dedicated the statue in the nearby town of bedford in july 1948. This turns out to be a difficult task because subversive elements try to prevent the bout. Mar 22, 20 relaxing piano music 247, sleep music, beautiful piano music, meditation, sleep, study, relax yellow brick cinema relaxing music 3,779 watching live now. Gentleman joe palooka is a 1946 film directed by cy endfield.
Maggleheimer synopsis chauncey, a former fighter, tries to get hired as joes bodyguard. Harvey also published a couple of joe s supporting. Joe palooka was an american comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist ham fisher. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance is a 1950 american film directed by jean yarbrough. Joe palookas film career spanned twenty b films between 1934 and 1951. A crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slowwitted. Oct 14, 2019 palooka plural palookas us slang a stupid, oafish or clumsy person. Joe palooka statue oolitic 2020 all you need to know. Tiny oolitic, indiana lawrence county is home to one of the biggest comic stars from the 1930s and 1940s, joe palooka. Humphrey pennyworth is joe palooka s best friend, and sparring partner.
Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 overview. Vintage joe palooka inflatable bop bag 1950s 60s professional service great prices fast shipping excellent feedback product info this vintage blowup bop bag with sand in the bottom has no visible tears in the vinyl. But jack dempsey against some palooka who had been press agented into greatness and into the form of a dempsey menace that would pack any outdoor arena. Joe palooka in winner take all is a 1947 american film in the joe palooka series. Joe actually reached a battlefield, and fisher took the opportunity to deliver a typically patriotic. Joe palooka embodied everything that people valuehonesty, politeness, gentilitywrapped up in a surprising package. The definitive the story of joe palooka radio log with. Joe and anne go off on their honeymoon while knobby books him into a. It was the second of the longrunning joe palooka series. Joe palooka meets humphrey original 1950 promo photo pamela blake boxing. Overview of joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance, 1950, directed by jean yarbrough, with leon errol, joe kirkwood jr. Plus true tales of athletic greats and solo stories featuring little max and humphrey. The bw filmstrips include a 3episode story titled joe palooka vs.
Counterpunch 1949 canvasback joe palooka meets humphrey 1950 canvasback joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 canvasback triple trouble 1950 let my pride be whats left behind 48 words. The prizefighter joe palooka s popularity soars after his manager, knobby walsh, explains to reporters how clean living is responsible for joe s success. Shop joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 1 dvd. Vintage tijuana bibles for sale from vintage nude photos, the best of vintage erotica from the rotenberg collection, spanning well over 120 years of fine erotic photos showing all types and combinations of sexual acts and nude figures. Of course there are some shady characters who would rather just buy the title, but since joe and his manager knobby walsh leon errol arent selling they come up with a scheme to take a cut of joe s profits by tying up all the venues and rival fighters in exclusive contracts. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 plot summary. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 dvd new ebay. Hakes joe palookas pal humphrey the happy blacksmith. Ham fishers comicstrip boxer has adventures both inside and outside the ring. The strip was at its peak of popularity when the indiana limestone industry decided to identify itself with joe by carving him into a limestone statue. The square deal boxing corporation crooked as a snakes hind leg, through gordon rogers, tries to make a deal with knobby walsh whereby it will own thirty percent of the contract with heavyweight champion joe palooka knobby refuses, saying even in west wokkington falls he could stage a record bout.
Knobby synopsis a con artist tries to get knobby to sell a stain removing product called annihylater and uses a young joe palooka for a demonstration. Ctva the classic tv archive us drama series the joe palooka story 1954 episode guide compiled by the classic tv archive with contributions by. This film from monogram pictures is the beginning of a series with eleven sequels. Joe palooka is an american comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by. He was the first newspaper comics character licensed by harvey comics, which later did comic book versions of the phantom, blondie, bringing up father and others. Stuart erwin, the lead joe palooka protagonist character. Joe palooka stuart erwin is a naive young man whose father pete robert armstrong was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused joe s mother mayme marjorie rambeau to leave him and to take young joe to the country to raise him. In 1948, joe palooka was ranked one of the five most popular strips. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 plot keywords. View all hotels near joe palooka statue on tripadvisor. All portions of the grand comics database, except where noted otherwise, are ed by the gcd and are licensed under a creative commons attributionsharealike 4. Touting over 10,000,000 fans of the comic strip, heinz 57s spot ads of the era heralded the new series as the greatest 15 minutes of fun on the air. Joe palooka is an american comic strip about a heavyweight boxing champion, created by cartoonist ham fisher. Buy the joe palooka meets humphrey, 1950, movie poster, 8.
Northern lawrence county, bedford, indiana marshall township is absolutely beautiful, perhaps the most gorgeous scenery in indiana. Humphrey, the mostliked citizen agrees to run for mayor. A the plug is missing, but this is easily replaced. The public is pleased with a hero who believes in drinking milk. Arts and entertainment comics and animation asked by. Atlantic italy 11 september 2014 contemporary hit radio spingo.
Joe finds out the stain remover is only temporary and goes back to show the con artist. Bedevilled 1955 ganzer film deutsch hd filme online. Joe palooka is an american comic strip about a heavyweight boxing. Last week hundreds of thousands of comicstrip readers were speculating on the birth of the aging heavyweight heros second, child after ten years of married life, but because of matters legal, not medical, it was not even certain that the baby would ever be born.
The first actor to portray joe palooka in film was stu erwin in 1934s palooka for reliance pictures. A crooked mayor and fight promoter conspire to sign slowwitted humphrey to a contract. Palooka 1934 has wonderful actor work by jimmy durante, lupe velez, and robert armstrongthis movie is an example of extremely good acting worth seeing, but brought down by notsogood directing, script writing, and dull casting choices esp. South of wilkesbarre, pennsylvania on the way to the town of mountain top, pennsylvania is joe palooka mountain, named in the. Suzy n frank is with matt zumwalt and 3 others at joe palookas.
Joe palooka oolitic, indiana epic beings and creatures on. A stupid or a clumsy oaf, and by extension, an incompetent prizefighter. Joe palooka in humphrey takes a chance 1950 goldposter. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The prizefighter joe palookas popularity soars after his manager, knobby walsh, explains to reporters how clean living is responsible for joes success. Palooka is a 1934 comedy film based on the comic strip by ham fisher. Humphrey pennyworth is joe palookas best friend, and sparring partner. Electro swing the real tuesday weld remix joe palooka show me the money official audio duration. The strip debuted on april 19, 1930 and was carried at its peak by 900 newspapers. Joe palookas thornton, colorado sports bar facebook.
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