Boxing Gloves
About Boxing Gloves
Joe and Chubby, best friends, both fall for Jean and start swinging. Farina and Harry have been trying to promote fights that nobody will actually fight, so they bill the two heavy boys. Each is told the other will take a dive in the second round. The yard fills up. A last trick from the gang gets the punches going.
Cast & crew
More about Boxing Gloves
The 90th Our Gang short, and a remake of the 1923 silent The Champeen. Anthony Mack directed. Robert F. McGowan and Hal Roach produced. F. E. Hershey and Art Lloyd photographed it, Richard C. Currier edited, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer released it on 9 September 1929. It was advertised as all-talking, though much of the footage has no overdubbed sound.
Themes
Making
The ring comedy was rebuilt from The Champeen, a silent Our Gang short of 1923, with sound added unevenly: some scenes play silent under the talkie billing.
Look
F. E. Hershey and Art Lloyd photographed the backyard ring.
Music
Ray Henderson is credited with the music.
Preservation
The short survives.
Notes
- Anthony Mack is the directing name of Robert A. McGowan.
- Joe Cobb's last Our Gang film, and Jackie Cooper's first.
- The third Our Gang short made with sound, and the earliest one later included in the Little Rascals television package.
- Norman Chaney plays Chubby, Allen Hoskins plays Farina, Jean Darling plays Jean, and Harry Spear plays Harry.
- Bobby Mallon announces the bout as Graham McCracker.
Scenes
- Farina and Harry tell each boy that the other will dive in the second round.
- The yard fills for a match between two friends who do not want to hit each other.
Influenced by
- The Champeen (1923)
