''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, ge ...
starring
Reginald Denny (and
Billy Sullivan in the fourth series), and based on boxing stories by
H. C. Witwer originally published in ''
Collier's Weekly
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''Collier's'' was an American general interest magazine founded in 1888 by Peter F. Collier, Peter Fenelon Collier. It was launched as ''Collier's Once a Week'', then renamed in 1895 as ''Collier's Weekly: An Illustrated Journal'', shortened i ...
''. The screenplays were written by a young
Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (; September 5, 1902December 22, 1979) was an American film producer and studio executive; he earlier contributed stories for films starting in the silent era. Best known as a co-founder of 20th Century Fox, he played a ...
.
[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
Preservation status
Only episodes 2 and 3 exist, along with a trailer for the series.
''The Leather Pushers''
at silentera.com
See also
*List of boxing films
This is a list of films about boxing featuring notable sports films where boxing plays a central role in the development of the plot.
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List
See also
* List of sports films
* List of highest-grossing sports films
References
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*List of film serials
A list of film serials by year of release.
1910s
1920s
1930s
(Film prints exist unless noted otherwise)
1940s
1950s
See also
* Serial (film)
* List of film serials by studio
References
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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
Films based on short fiction
Universal Pictures film serials
1920s American films
Silent American sports drama films
1920s English-language films
Films shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey
English-language sports drama films
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