Kid Monk Baroni

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Kid Monk Baroni
Kid Monk Baroni FilmPoster.jpeg
Directed by Harold D. Schuster
Written by
  • Aben Kandel (original screenplay)
  • Dick Conway (additional dialogue)
Produced by Jack Broder (producer)
Herman Cohen (associate producer)
StarringSee below
Cinematography Charles Van Enger
Edited byJason H. Bernie
Music by Herschel Burke Gilbert
Production
company
Jack Broder Productions Inc.
Distributed by Realart Pictures
Release date
  • May 1, 1952 (1952-05-01)
Running time
80 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Kid Monk Baroni is a 1952 American film noir sport film directed by Harold D. Schuster. It is also known as Young Paul Baroni in the United Kingdom. It features Leonard Nimoy, later in Star Trek as Spock, in his first lead role in a motion picture, as well as future Jimmy Olsen Jack Larson of television's original Adventures of Superman series.

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This film was the first in producer Jack Broder's series of "The Billy Goat Gang" - the movie's opening titles are The Billy Goat Gang in Kid Monk Baroni - similar to other gang films series like The Bowery Boys and its antecedents. However, no further films were made.

Plot

A disfigured street kid (Leonard Nimoy), a member of the Billy Goat Gang, is shown how to box by a parish priest, Father Callahan (Richard Rober), who also makes him part of the church choir. The priest introduces him to Emily. During a fight with the other members of the Billy Goats for ridiculing his church vestments, he accidentally knocks out Father Callahan, and runs away from home to avoid the repercussions. He enters amateur bouts, and then goes for plastic surgery to correct his disfigurement. After the surgery, Monk becomes even more conceited, losing the respect of Angelo and Emily, and his manager convinces him to resume fighting to address his unpaid bills.

During the comeback fight, Monk drops his dirty tactics and his opponent wins by split decision. With money going out due to Monk’s new clean tactics, his syndicate plans recoup their losses by forcing his return to dirty fighting.

In the next fight after Monk’s reform, Father Callahan and Emily are in the audience for his match against the Wildcat, which Monk loses to TKO in round 6, costing the syndicate $20,000.

Father Callahan congratulates Monk on his new ethics, and Monk and Emily reunite and marry to further Father Callahan’s sports initiative.

Cast

the Billy Goat Gang:

Kathleen Freeman and Leonard Nimoy Kid Monk Baroni 1.jpg
Kathleen Freeman and Leonard Nimoy


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