The Leather Pushers were a charming series of eighteen 2-reel comedies based upon the story of a prize-fighter from the Colliers articles by H.C.

Malcolm St. Clair, H.C. Witwer, Darryl F. Zanuck
United States

There is a moment, roughly ninety seconds into Round Two, when Reginald Denny’s Kane Halliday—still smelling of aftershave from a Park Avenue upbringing—takes a fist to the orbital bone and the camera lingers on the rippling flesh of his cheek. The punch is not treated as calamity but as illumination: a magnesium-flas...


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" There is a moment, roughly ninety seconds into Round Two, when Reginald Denny’s Kane Halliday—still smelling of aftershave from a Park Avenue upbringing—takes a fist to the orbital bone and the camera lingers on the rippling flesh of his cheek. The punch is not treated as calamity but as illumination: a magnesium-flash that reveals the chasm between inherited wealth and earned survival. The Leather Pushers cycle, of which this chapter is the bruised, buoyant cornerstone, understood that comedy ..."


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