Although Dane Clark is a decent actor this film was a time waster, nothing more, nothing less. Dane Clark plays a former boxer named Michael Gordon - aka Mike Angelo, who achieved some level of success in the boxing ring before quitting to fulfill his dream of becoming an artist instead. Mike Gordon is a painter of ocean view scenes with beautiful women depicted as mermaids. He unexpectedly sells one of his paintings to a mysterious women who he chases down to find out what drew her to his less than perfect painting and the mysterious woman named Laurie Durant (Alexis Smith) tells Mike she is a lounge singer and she felt the painting was one of a kind. After a brief romantic liaison Laurie disappears from her hotel room without telling Mike why she abruptly left without leaving him a phone number or forwarding address.
Broken hearted Mike attends a lounge one night and out of the blue the songbird on the stage turns out to be his mystery portrait buyer and lover Laurie Durant. Mike finds out the reason why Laurie left him so abruptly (which I won't spoil for you) and to win her back he agrees to go back into the ring.
Actor Dane Clark was only 36 years old when he made this film, but for him to be playing a tough ring fighter his body actually appeared to look more like he was closer to age 50. Between Dane Clark's lack of pugilistic talents and Alexis Smith's less than stellar singing voice I felt this film hit the canvas (the boxing ring canvas and not the painter's canvas) with a resounding "thump!"
This is one of those films that attempted to imitate some of the much more classier pugilistic three way romantic love triangle films of the day but just could not go even one (1) round let alone 10 or 15 rounds. I give the film two thumbs down and a rating of 4 out of 10.
Broken hearted Mike attends a lounge one night and out of the blue the songbird on the stage turns out to be his mystery portrait buyer and lover Laurie Durant. Mike finds out the reason why Laurie left him so abruptly (which I won't spoil for you) and to win her back he agrees to go back into the ring.
Actor Dane Clark was only 36 years old when he made this film, but for him to be playing a tough ring fighter his body actually appeared to look more like he was closer to age 50. Between Dane Clark's lack of pugilistic talents and Alexis Smith's less than stellar singing voice I felt this film hit the canvas (the boxing ring canvas and not the painter's canvas) with a resounding "thump!"
This is one of those films that attempted to imitate some of the much more classier pugilistic three way romantic love triangle films of the day but just could not go even one (1) round let alone 10 or 15 rounds. I give the film two thumbs down and a rating of 4 out of 10.