Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey

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Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey is a 1950 film in the Joe Palooka series. It was directed by Jean Yarbrough.

When their car veers off the road en route to their honeymoon, Joe Palooka and new wife Anne are rescued by a sweet lummox, Humphrey Pennyworth, who has amazing strength.

Knobby Walsh turns up, concerned about newspaper reports that Joe intends to retire from boxing. He spends the night, causing a rift between Joe and an annoyed Anne in the process.

A charity fight is arranged in which Joe will raise funds for a boys' club. When his scheduled opponent, Johnson, makes an insulting remark, Humphrey flattens him. Johnson's shifty manager Belden now wants Humphrey to fight Joe instead, but all the sweet Humphrey wants to do is eat.

Belden tells lies about Joe, persuading a gullible Humphrey to step into the ring. Belden's thugs knock out Knobby, who has been running a scheme of his own, pretending to be Lord Cecil, a British boxing manager. Joe's punches barely affect Humphrey, but having been kept from eating all day, Humphrey becomes dizzy from hunger. Joe is able to defeat him, Belden is arrested and Humphrey's sister Prunella brings him a pie.

• Leon Errol as Knobby / Lord Cecil
• Joe Kirkwood, Jr. as Joe Palooka
• Elyse Knox as Anne
• Robert Coogan as Humphrey
• Jerome Cowan as Belden
• Joe Besser as Carlton
• Donald MacBride as Mayor

• Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey at TCMDB
• Joe Palooka Meets Humphrey at IMDb

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