Golden Boy (1939)
Directed by Rouben Mamoulian
Despite his talent as a musician, a city boy decides to become a boxer. He's successful as a fighter — much to the dismay of his father. When gangsters try to buy a piece of him, he begins to have second thoughts.
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Her older brother Darian ( Everybody Wants Some ’s Blake Jenner, downgraded from a college freshman to a high school senior) was always a subject of resentment for what Nadine perceives to be his perfect, “Golden Boy” life.
And despite speeches about Hope’s graduation from the School of Hard Knocks, he doesn’t function as a bristling working-class hero or antihero, like the fictional protagonists of Golden Boy , Body and Soul , The Set-Up , and Champion.