Joe Palooka comes to the screen in a comedy patterned after the comic strip. He is a baggage handler in a small town railroad station and brushes with the visiting champion who knocks him down after a pup tears his clothes out of his bags.
Should you watch this? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for mid-century comic strip adaptations or you’re just really into the specific brand of chaos that comes with old-school shorts. If you hate slapstick or get annoyed when a movie feels like it’s being held together by duct tape and sheer willpower, skip it....
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Lloyd French
Harley Knoles
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"Should you watch this? Honestly, only if you have a soft spot for mid-century comic strip adaptations or you’re just really into the specific brand of chaos that comes with old-school shorts. If you hate slapstick or get annoyed when a movie feels like it’s being held together by duct tape and sheer willpower, skip it. It's a relic, plain and simple. The whole thing starts at a train station. Joe Palooka is doing his thing—handling bags, being simple, being Joe—and then a champion boxer shows u..."
Ham Fisher, Burnet Hershey, Jack Henley
United States
