The Mighty McGurk is a 1947 American sports drama film directed by John Waters and starring Wallace Beery, Dean Stockwell and Edward Arnold.

Roy "Slag" McGurk (Wallace Beery), the former heavyweight boxing champion, ekes out a living as a bouncer in Mike Glenson's (Edward Arnold) saloon in the rough Bowery district of New York City.

Mike has to meet two brewers for an important deal, so he sends Slag to pick up his daughter Caroline (Dorothy Patrick), returning by ship from Europe.

The fiftieth man has a young English boy in tow, Nipper (Dean Stockwell), an orphan who has been sent to America to live with his uncle Milbane (Aubrey Mather).

The picture bears some similarities to Beery's 1933 film The Bowery, the Raoul Walsh-directed blockbuster also starring George Raft, Jackie Cooper and Fay Wray.

The critic for The New York Times found The Mighty McGurk to be too much like Beery's previous efforts, writing, "while this story of an ex-prizefight champ who befriends an English orphan boy fits our pug as comfortably as an old shoe, it doesn't look much better than an ancient brogan.