The Kid from Kokomo
Slaphappy Fun... as a strong country boy (Kid Galahad) who was fighting for the world's championship and a shoplifting mammy! Hilarious comedy! A laff-a-minute!
1939 | 93m | English
Popularity: 0.2 (history)
| Director: | Lewis Seiler |
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| Writer: | Jerry Wald, Dalton Trumbo, Richard Macaulay |
| Staring: |
| Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring. | |
| Release Date: | May 23, 1939 |
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| Director: | Lewis Seiler |
| Writer: | Jerry Wald, Dalton Trumbo, Richard Macaulay |
| Genres: | Comedy, Romance |
| Keywords | boxing, boxing manager |
| Production Companies | Warner Bros. Pictures |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Jan 30, 2026 Entered: Apr 28, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Pat O'Brien | William Jennings 'Billy / 'Square Shooting Murph' Murphy |
| Wayne Morris | Homer Baston |
| Joan Blondell | Doris Harvey |
| May Robson | Margaret 'Maggie' / 'Ma' Manell |
| Jane Wyman | Marian Bronson |
| Stanley Fields | Muscles Malone |
| Maxie Rosenbloom | Curley Bender |
| Sidney Toler | Judge William 'Gashouse' Bronson |
| Edward Brophy | Eddie Black |
| Ward Bond | Ladislaw Klewicki |
| Noble 'Kid' Chissell | Boxer |
| Loia Cheaney | Bronson's Maid |
| Winifred Harris | Mrs. Bronson |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Jerry Wald | Writer |
| Dalton Trumbo | Story |
| Adolph Deutsch | Original Music Composer |
| Lewis Seiler | Director |
| Richard Macaulay | Writer |
| Sidney Hickox | Director of Photography |
| Jack Killifer | Editor |
| John Hughes | Art Direction |
| Howard Shoup | Costume Design |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Samuel Bischoff | Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person |
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| 2026 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
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