They Never Come Back

Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."

• prison
• new york city
• jealousy
• dancer
• prisoner
• police
• slang
• manager
• entertainer
• cigarette
• nightclub
• boxer
• romantic rivalry
• great depression
• prison warden
• liquor
• cigar smoking
• crook
• suitor
• b movie
• morality
• convict
• ex-con
• injury
• frame up
• prizefight
• referee
• confession of crime
• sweetheart
• poverty row