The Square Jungle

1955

1h 26m

5.9(7 votes)

Drama

Overview

Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.

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94 members

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Tony Curtis

Eddie Quaid / Packy Glennon

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Pat Crowley

Julie Walsh

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Ernest Borgnine

Bernie Browne

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Paul Kelly

Jim McBride

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Jim Backus

Pat Quaid

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Leigh Snowden

Lorraine Evans

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John Daheim

Al Gorski

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Joe Louis

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David Janssen

Jack Lindsay

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Carmen McRae

Singer

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John Marley

Tommy Dillon

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Barney Phillips

Dan Selby

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Joseph Vitale

Tony Adamson

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Kay Stewart

Mrs. Gorski

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Walter Bacon

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Nicky Blair

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Phil Bloom

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Nan Boardman

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George Boyce

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Paul Bradley

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Kenneth Brischof

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Loren Brown

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George Calliga

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Fred Carson

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Gordon Carveth

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Albert Cavens

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Jess Cavin

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Dick Cherney

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Noble 'Kid' Chissell

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Don Clark

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Russ Clark

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Bud Cokes

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Heinie Conklin

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Charles J. Conrad

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Clancy Cooper

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Jimmy Cross

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Roy Damron

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Walt Davis

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George DeNormand

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Dan Dowling

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Franklyn Farnum

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George Ford

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John George

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Helen Gereghty

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Joe Gray

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Duke Green

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Paul Gustine

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Robert Haines

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Don C. Harvey

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Bill Hickman

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George Hickman

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John Hiestand

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Jane Howard

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Donald Kerr

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Jess Kirkpatrick

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Frank Marlowe

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Thomas Martin

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Tipp McClure

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Philo McCullough

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Harold Miller

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Frank Mills

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Carlyle Mitchell

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Hans Moebus

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Ernesto Molinari

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Ralph Montgomery

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Frank Moran

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Charles Morton

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Denny Niles

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Wendell Niles

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Barry Norton

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William H. O'Brien

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Jack Perrin

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Charles Perry

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Jack Ramstead

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Barry Regan

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Edwin Rochelle

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Buddy Roosevelt

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Frank J. Scannell

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David Sharpe

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Charles Sherlock

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Leslie Sketchley

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Bert Spencer

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Robert R. Stephenson

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Norman Stevans

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Clarence Straight

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Brick Sullivan

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J. Stewart Taylor

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Rodger Terry

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Jack Tornek

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Danny Truppi

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Frankie Van

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Ralph Volkie

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Stuart Wade

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Steve Wayne

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