''The Leather Pushers'' is a 1922 American

film serial A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...

starring Reginald Denny (and Billy Sullivan in the fourth series), and based on boxing stories by

H. C. Witwer Harry Charles Witwer (March 11, 1890 – August 9, 1929), more commonly known as H. C. Witwer, was an American short-story author. Some 60 comedy film shorts were based on his works, most from the mid-1920s to 1930, the year after Witwer's dea ...

originally published in ''

Collier's Weekly ''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened in 1905 to ''Colli ...

''. The screenplays were written by a young Darryl F. Zanuck.Gussow, Mel (1971), ''Darryl F. Zanuck: Don't Say Yes Until I Finish Talking'', Da Capo Press, p. 29

List of Episodes

*1: Let's Go *2: Round Two *3: Payment Through the Nose *4: A Fool and His Honey *5: The Taming of the Shrewd *6: Whipsawed *7: Young King Cole *8: He Raised Kane *9: The Chickasha Bone Crusher *10: When Kane Met Abel *11: Strike Father, Strike Son *12: Joan of Newark *13: The Wandering Two *14: The Widower's Mite *15: Don Coyote *16: Something for Nothing *17: Columbia, the Gem and the Ocean *18: Barnaby's Grudge The Leather Pushers (1922) - Ad 1

Preservation status

Only episodes 2 and 3 exist, along with a trailer for the series.''The Leather Pushers''
at silentera.com

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* 1922 films 1922 drama films 1920s sports drama films American black-and-white films American boxing films American silent serial films American sports drama films Films based on short fiction Universal Pictures film serials 1920s American films Silent American drama films {{1920s-drama-film-stub

List of Episodes

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