Champ for a Day (1953)

An upandcoming heavyweight fighter George Wilson arrives in Vulcan City a small midwestern town overrun by racketeers to fight a heavilyfavored Frankie Sebastian George arrives but his manager Dolan is nowhere to be found But Ma and Pa Karlsen owners of Karlsens Kozy Kottages motel and restaurant take him under their wing He meets Miss Gormley who is also there to meet the noshow manager who is blackmailing her brother Dolan still hasnt arrived by the date of the fight but to the surprise of sportspromoters Tom Healy and Dominic Guido George shows up and wins the fight This wins him the friendship of trainer Al Muntz and the enmity of Willie Foltis a punchy exfighter and a Healy henchman This leads George to a fight with Soldier Freeman whose manager Scotty Cameron has made arrangements for the favoredFreeman to take a dive so he and Healy and Guido can clean up betting on the underdog But Honest George has other plans