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1940s Sports Movies

Public list by WPS with 36 movies or TV shows/series

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How to Swim(1942)

8min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

Goofy's plans to give a swimming lesson and enjoy a day at the beach go awry.

Directed by Jack Kinney

How to Play Baseball(1942)

3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Goofy shows us the national pastime. After a brief overview, we have a demonstration of the many possible pitches. On to the World Series, where we go through an eventful inning, culminating in a baseball that disintegrates when being hit.

Directed by Jack Kinney

Double Dribble(1946)

7min | Animation
3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

A basketball game of Goofs (P.U. vs. U.U.) in which the players play furiously, often breaking the rules of the game. All of the players are named after Disney artists.

Directed by Jack Hannah

The Olympic Champ(1942)

3.3/5 (with 25 votes)

A narrator explains the history of the Olympic Games while Goofy demonstrates events.

Directed by Jack Kinney

Neptune's Daughter(1949)

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Scatterbrained Betty Barrett mistakes masseur Jack Spratt for Jose O'Rourke, the captain of the South American polo team. Spratt goes along with the charade, but the situation becomes more complicated when they fall in love. Meanwhile, Betty's sensible older sister Eve fears Betty's heart will be broken when Jose returns to South America. She arranges to meet with the real O'Rourke and love soon blossoms between them as well.

Knute Rockne All American(1940)

1h 38min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Duke of Chicago(1949)

1h 1min | Drama

To save his publishing firm, a prizefighter comes out of retirement in a fixed match.

Directed by George Blair - With Tom Brown

The Art of Skiing(1941)

3.5/5 (with 29 votes)

Goofy, staying at the Sugar Bowl resort, demonstrates the basics of downhill skiing, which the titles and announcer insist is pronounced "SHEEing". The equipment is, of course, of the era. As you can imagine, Goofy has much trouble keeping his skis parallel and pointing downhill. The final ski jump conveniently lands Goofy right back in bed.

Directed by Jack Kinney

How to Play Football(1944)

7min | Animation
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.

Directed by Jack Kinney

The Art of Self Defense(1941)

3.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Goofy takes a lighthearted look at self defense through the ages: cavemen, knights, the age of chivalry, and finally boxing.

Directed by Jack Kinney

Goofy Gymnastics(1949)

3.4/5 (with 18 votes)

Inspired by a magazine ad, Goofy sends for a mail order body building course. First is weight lifting; after Goofy finally gets the weights up, a fly lands and sends him crashing through several floors in the apartment building. Chinups: the bar itself goes up and down. Then a rubber-band stretch device, which Goofy quickly tangles up in, sending him crashing through the building and several other pieces of equipment.

Directed by Jack Kinney

Ringside Maisie(1941)

1h 35min | Comedy, Mystery
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let down his best friend and manager Skeets Maguire, who has hopes of him becoming the next champion, he is reluctant to bring up the subject with him. Maisie convinces Terry to tell Skeets, whose unexpected reaction induces him to step into the ring again.

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Rabbit Punch(1948)

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Heckling the Champ gets Bugs into the world championship fight as the challenger.

Directed by Chuck Jones

Blonde Comet(1941)

2.7/5 (with 2 votes)

A tire manufacturer's daughter becomes a champion auto racer.

Directed by William Beaudine

The Pittsburgh Kid(1941)

1h 16min | Action

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of these was Billy Conn, who after being knocked out by Louis in the 13th round awakened to star in the Republic programmer The Pittsburgh Kid. The story finds clean-limned pugilist Conn (playing himself) being managed by pretty Patricia Mallory.

Directed by Jack Townley - With Billy Conn

Whiplash(1948)

1h 31min | Drama
2.3/5 (with 5 votes)

An artist follows a woman from California to New York, where he boxes for her mobster husband.

Triple Threat(1948)

1h 11min

An arrogant college football player turns professional, taking his bad attitude with him.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough - With Gloria Henry

Champion Without Crown(1946)

1h 51min | Action, Drama
2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

A young ice cream vendor, Roberto Terranova, witnesses a child being beaten and comes to his aid by physically overpowering the aggressor. His strength and natural ability catches the eye of a well-known boxing trainer. Considering him a diamond in the rough, he aims to put Roberto in the professional ring. But Roberto finds that his personal challenges must be overcome before he can achieve professional greatness.

Joe Palooka, Champ(1946)

1h 10min | Comedy

After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series.

Harlem(1943)

1h 20min | Drama

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.

Gentleman Joe Palooka(1946)

1h 12min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.

Directed by Cy Endfield

Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch(1949)

1h 14min | Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe.

Die Geierwally(1940)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 44min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

In the mountains of the Ötztal, the wealthy Fender (Eduard Köck) and Wally (Heath Hatheyer), his only daughter and heir, manage a small farm. He wants to marry the rich, but boring, Vincent (Leopold Esterle). Wally escapes to a mountain hut, where she lives alone and withdrawn. Her love belongs to the hunter, Joseph (Sepp Rist). When she unwisely takes a young vulture from its nest and is attacked by the mother, Joseph comes to her aid and from that point on, she fondly calls him her "Geierwally". He also feels attracted to her, but Wally can't escape the feeling, that the young Afra is his mistress. Mad with jealousy, Wally announces that she'll marry the one who kills Josef. Vincent wants to earn her hand and is determined to kill the Geierwally. Just in time, though, the actual relationship between Joseph and Afra is clarified.

Ringside(1949)

1h 8min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Joe O'Hara finds out he has a damaged optic nerve just before a boxing match for the title. He needs the money badly, so he doesn't delay the fight. The opponent discovers Joe's weakness and pounds on his eyes, causing him to go blind.

Directed by Frank McDonald

Killer McCoy(1947)

1h 44min | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, however he has an alcoholic father.

The Babe Ruth Story(1948)

1h 46min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

The baseball player goes from wayward youth to Boston Red Sox pitcher to New York Yankees home-run hero.

Directed by Roy Del Ruth - With William Bendix, Claire Trevor, Charles Bickford, Sam Levene, Robert Ellis, Lord Chamberlain's Men, ...

The Contender(1944)

1h 3min | Drama
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A truck driver turns to prizefighting with hopes of earning enough cash to send his son to military school. 1944.

Directed by Sam Newfield

Five Red Tulips(1949)

During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer.

Cup-Tie Honeymoon(1948)

1h 33min | Comedy
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.

Directed by John E. Blakeley - With Sandy Powell

Derby(1949)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 20min | Drama

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