# The Contender

Widower Gary Farrell can't afford, on his $45-weekly salary as a truck driver, to send his young son, Mickey, to a high-priced military school and decides to enter heavyweight-boxing tournament in an effort to win the $500 prize money.

- Kind: Feature
- Year: 1944
- Runtime: 1 h 2 min
- By: Bert Sternbach
- Genres: Drama, Crime, Sports
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/the_contender_ipod)
- Licence or status: [Public domain (Creative Commons dedication)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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