Walter soon finds occasional work there as a mechanic at the auto garage, plus discovers an old dusty antique Ford Model T sedan car up on blocks under a tarp, which Mr. Prohosko lets him fix up and restore.

She becomes immediately interested in the handsome young singer / mechanic / amateur boxing student Walter, viewing him amusedly after meeting him, from the veranda porch of the log cabin Grogan Lodge.

Walter begins training under the watchful experienced eye of Lew Nyack (Charles Bronson), Willy's top trainer / coach, and Howard Zimmerman (Judson Pratt), his assistant.

But Walter barges in on the hoods intimidating rousting fight of a visit from Danzig and a couple of his thugs when they attack trainer Lew (Bronson), breaking his hands / finger bones.

So Walter fights, beats up and quickly knocks them all out in the back kitchen when he hears them doing their dirty work and throws his muscle behind Willy to ignore their further attempted intimidation and threats with the help of a visit from Frank Gerson (Ed Asner), an assistant district attorney and investigating prosecutor.

The fight with Ramon ("Sugar Boy") Romero (Orlando De La Fuente, real-life welterweight boxer during the 1960s) is hard and difficult but Walter emerges bloodied but victorious.

He wins the big fight as well as Willy's approval, retiring undefeated after his short career to his 1920s vintage Ford Model T red car and the heart of his new adoring love Rose.

[citation needed] Bosley Crowther of The New York Times suggested that Presley was miscast as a boxer, writing that he was "certainly no model for a statue of Hercules, and his skill at projecting an illusion of ferocity is of very low degree."

"[10] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "If the wit and intelligence lavished on the excellent dialogue had also been used to give a shred of ingenuity to the plot or a momentary sparkle to the lyrics, this would have been a much more amusing comedy ... Elvis Presley repeats the amiable oaf performance he gave recently in Follow That Dream, but it is nowhere near as funny, partly because his farcical opportunities are fewer, but mainly because it is hard to laugh continually at someone whose face is seen a couple of times bruised and bleeding in the ring.