Sunday Punch (film)

Sunday Punch is a 1942 comedy film directed by David Miller and starring William Lundigan and Jean Rogers.

[2][3] Boxers managed by Bassler and trained by Roscoe live in an all-male Brooklyn boardinghouse, where the arrival of the landlady's niece Judy gets their attention.

Judy gets to know Ken Burke, who quit medical school to try boxing, and Ole Jensen, the young janitor.

He decides to be a prizefighter to earn money to impress Judy, but no one except "Pops" Muller will agree to train him.

The film earned $229,000 in the US and Canada and $144,000 elsewhere during its initial theatrical run, making MGM a loss of $79,000.