Top Cast
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Helen Twelvetrees
Pat Rogers
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Buck Jones
Slag Bailey
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Donald O'Connor
Ted Streaver (age 12)
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Virginia Vale
Betty (as Dorothy Howe)
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Buster Crabbe
Buzz Kinney (as Larry Crabbe)
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Robert Armstrong
Pins Streaver
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John Hartley
Ted Streaver
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Edward Pawley
Swade (as Ed Pawley)
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Sidney Blackmer
Cash Enright
Overview
Pals Pat Rogers and Slag Bailey try to collect a debt from Slag's recently deceased boxing promoter but wind up collecting his child, instead, and raising him as their own son.
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