Kid Monk Baroni
Leonard Nimoy is "Kid" Monk Baroni, the leader of a street gang who becomes a professional boxer to escape his life in "Little Italy" New York.
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Kid Monk Baroni is a 1952 American film noir sport film directed by Harold D. Schuster. It is also known as Young Paul Baroni in the United Kingdom. It features Leonard Nimoy, later in Star Trek as Spock, in his first lead role in a motion picture, as well as future Jimmy Olsen Jack Larson of television's original Adventures of Superman series. This film was the first in producer Jack Broder's series of "The Billy Goat Gang" - the movie's opening titles are The Billy Goat Gang in Kid Monk Baroni - similar to other gang films series like The Bowery Boys and its antecedents. However, no further films were made.
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- Director
- Harold D. Schuster
- Starring
- Leonard Nimoy, Richard Rober, Mona Knox, Bruce Cabot, Allene Roberts, Budd Jaxon, Archer MacDonald, Kathleen Freeman
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