Kid Monk Baroni

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Kid Monk Baroni ★★½ 1952

Street punk Baroni (Nimoy) leaves his gang behind when a good-guy priest (Rober) introduces him to boxing. The kid rises to success thanks to a cagey manager (Cabot) and despite the presence of organized crime. Typical B-movie melodrama. 80m/B VHS, DVD . Leonard Nimoy, Bruce Cabot, Richard Rober, Kathleen Freeman; D: Harold Schuster.