Lost TV Classics Featuring The Joe Palooka Story - DVD

Joe Palooka, champion prizefighter, steps out of the comic strips and onto the TV screen in this rarely seen 1954 series. Debuting in newspapers in 1930, millions thrilled to the adventures of the kind-hearted boxer, his girlfriend (later wife) Ann, and manager Knobby. The strip soon inspired a popular CBS radio show and a 1934 film, Palooka , starring Stu Erwin, Lupe Velez, and Jimmy Durante. Monogram Pictures then began a series of 11