They Made Me a Criminal (1939)
Directed by Busby Berkeley
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
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The fall-from-grace storyline is a familiar angle in boxing films: Sylvester Stallone used it in his “Rocky” franchise and it has been a staple of the genre as far back as the 1930s when Warner Bros. and other studios were churning out such films as “The Champ,” “The Life of Jimmy Dolan” and “They Made Me a Criminal.”