The Champeen
About The Champeen
Sammy is caught stealing apples and starts promoting boxing matches to pay the grocer back. Mickey and Jack agree to fight, each one hoping Mary will notice him.
Cast & crew
More about The Champeen
Robert F. McGowan directed the seventh Our Gang short. Hal Roach produced it. Pathé Exchange released it on 28 January 1923. Len Powers photographed it.
Themes
Making
McGowan built the short around a backyard prizefight, with the apple theft only as the reason the boys need a purse.
Look
Len Powers photographed the short, including the backyard match staged to pay for stolen apples.
Preservation
A print survives.
Notes
- Ernie Morrison plays Sammy, Mickey Daniels plays Mickey, Jack Davis plays Jack, and Mary Kornman plays Mary.
- Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Johnny Downs, and Allen Hoskins are also in the gang.
- Hal Roach had started Our Gang in 1922. This was the seventh short released.
- A second reported length is 23 minutes.
Scenes
- Sammy, caught with the apples, bills a championship bout to raise the money.
- Mickey and Jack fight while Mary watches.
