Product Details

• Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan
• Directors: Michael Curtiz
• Writers: Francis Wallace, Seton I. Miller
• Producers: Hal B. Wallis, Jack L. Warner, Samuel Bischoff
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: MGM (Warner)
• VHS Release Date: May 19, 1998
• Run Time: 102 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630254842X
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #19,838 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars "Kid" is an above average fight movie with a stellar cast, June 4, 2001

By	Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

Promoter Nick Donati (Edward G. Robinson) is hosting a party for prizefight champion Chuck McGraw (William Haade), when the boxer harasses a bellhop, Ward Guisenberry (Wayne Morris), who decks the champ with one punch. That is when Donati's mistress, Fluff Phillips (Bette Davis) suggests that maybe the battling bellhop could be the next champ. She even gives Ward his new nickname, "Kid Galahad" (saw that one coming, right?). So Nick signs the kid and sends him out on the road with his trainer, Silver Jackson (Harry Carey) and Fluff, who falls in love with the Kid, who in turn has no clue as to what is going on. When Fluff rejects Donati's marriage proposal, he assumes the Kid and Fluff have been an item and he intends to get his revenge. Donati arranges a championship fight with McGraw, guaranteeing the champ's crooked manager, Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart) that the Kid will lose and receive a savage beating in the process. Just to make things really complicated, the Kid trains at Donati's farm, where he falls for the promoter's kid sister, Marie (Jane Bryan). During the fight Donati gives the Kid bad instructions, but when Fluff and Marie convince him the Kid never did him any wrong. However, even telling the Kid to go on and win the fight cannot prevent "Kid Galahad" from having a tragic ending.

With a cast like Robinson, Davis and Bogart and director Michael Curtiz, it is easy to see why "Kid Galahad" was considered one of the best fight pictures of its day. The fight sequences are certainly above average and Harry Carey has always been one of my favorite character actors ever since I first saw "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" where he plays the Vice President. Morris has a promising debut in a leading role, but never really gets another film this good in his relatively long career. The screenplay by Seton I. Miller is based on the novel by Francis Wallace. Final Note: "Kid Galahad" was remade as an Elvis Presley musical in 1962 with the King playing the Kid.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Love the Characters' Names, February 12, 2000

By	James L. (Toronto, Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

If Kid Galahad has one thing going for it, it is the unusual names of some of the characters. Bette Davis is Fluff, the decent and wise girlfriend of a boxing manager/promoter, and she's good in this movie she made before she became the megastar she would become. Humphrey Bogart is Turkey Morgan, another manager/promoter who's the bad guy of the film. This is the kind of role I've seen Bogart do a lot before he became the megastar he would become. It doesn't give him much of a chance to show the talent we know he had. Davis' boyfriend is played by Edward G. Robinson, and he plays the character like ... well... the usual Edward G. Robinson character of the Thirties: flawed and in your face. The boxer that Robinson manages and Davis ends up loving is nicknamed Kid Galahad and is played by Wayne Morris a little too earnestly. This is the kind of quick, predictable, yet fun to watch film that Warner Brothers turned out a lot in the Thirties. It's a chance to see some big stars before they were big stars, and it's not a bad way to pass ninety minutes.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kid Galahad: Why Women Like This Movie, March 30, 2002

By	Martin Asiner (jersey city, nj United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

At first glance, Kid Galahad seems typical of the fight films of the 30's. There is the up and coming fighter, Wayne Morris, who has a tough talking manager, Edward G. Robinson. There is the girlfriend who falls for him (both Bette Davis and Jane Bryan), and finally there is the rackets guy, Bogie, who sets up a fixed championship bout.
When I first saw Kid Galahad, I enjoyed it on a surface level, vicariously enjoying Wayne Morris' rise to glory. But as I watched it again, I paid more attention to the subtle interplay between the two female leads, the then superstar Bette Davis, and the newcomer Jane Bryan. It became clear to me that though the ostensible focus was on the rise to the championship of Morris, there was a subplot that gradually loomed as at least as interesting. Early in the film, Bette Davis makes it clear to the audience (but not to the green as grass Morris), that she has fallen in love with him, but because of her role as Edgar G. Robinson's girlfriend, she must keep her feelings to herself. Enter Jane Bryan, who falls in love too, but Morris returns her love. As Bryan gets to know Morris, he keeps telling her how 'swell' Bette Davis is. Naturally, Bryan grows increasingly jealous. Ditto for Bette Davis when she learns that Morris prefers Bryan to her.
For most of the movie, the two women never meet. Near the end they do meet, and for me, the emotional climax is their meeting. Morris and Bryan visit the nightclub where Davis is singing. Davis sees them and approaches their table. As they meet, you can see the two women sizing each other up. Jane Bryan says, "You know,when I first heard about you, I thought that I wouldn't like you, but I do, very much." Davis thanks her, and then responds with an emotional wallop that seems even more powerful when she adds softly, "And you know,don't you?" Naturally, the obtuse Morris is confused. "Know what?" he asks.
The women look at each other and their faces indicate the subtle undertow of the conversation.
Kid Galahad stands out from its competition for all the often quoted reasons,but for me what made the movie click was the understated battle between the ladies that was as least as significant as the punches thrown by the men in the ring.