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In This Corner (1948 film)

1948 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ73543362 ↗
Source-derived summary

In This Corner is a 1948 American sports drama film directed by Charles Reisner and starring Scott Brady, Anabel Shaw and James Millican.

Plot

Cast

Scott Brady as Jimmy Weston

Anabel Shaw as Sally Rivers

James Millican as Charles 'Tug' Martin

Mary Meade as Birdie Bronson

Charles D. Brown as Victor 'Doc' Fuller

Cy Kendall as Tiny Reed

John Indrisano as Johnny Hart

Robert Bice as Navy Commander Harris

John Hamilton as Admiral in Harris' Office

John Doucette as Dunkle

Cliff Clark as CPO Mike Burke

Bill Kennedy as Al Barton

Tommy Garland as Paddy Dillon

Dave Shilling as Whitey, Dillon's Trainer

Renny McEvoy as Matt McGuire

Don Forbes as TV Sportscaster

Ralph Dunn as Gus

References

Bibliography

William H. Young & Nancy K. Young. World War II and the Postwar Years in America: A-I. ABC-CLIO, 2010.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “In This Corner (1948 film)” is 1948 film. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Corner and film, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. For this dossier, Corner and film is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “1948 film” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q73543362. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 2010.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “In This Corner (1948 film)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow In This Corner (1948 film) primary sources, In This Corner (1948 film) archive and Corner research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “In This Corner (1948 film)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.