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The Kid from Kokomo

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Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career searching for his parents, so Murphy hires two jailbirds to play his long lost parents to keep him in the ring.

movie

Status: Released

Released Date: 1939-05-23

Runtime: 93 mins

Director: Lewis Seiler

Writer: Jerry Wald, Richard Macaulay

Spoken language: English

Genres: Romance, Comedy

Original title: The Kid from Kokomo

Production Companies: Warner Bros. Pictures

Production Countries: United States of America

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