The Kid from Brooklyn is a 1946 comedy film

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

 starring Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye was a celebrated American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian...

 and co-starring Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo

Virginia Mayo was an American film actress.After a short career in vaudeville, Mayo progressed to films and during the 1940s established herself as a supporting player in such films as The Best Years of Our Lives and White Heat .Mayo remained an A-list actress into the mid-'50s, but then went...

, Vera-Ellen

Vera-Ellen

Vera-Ellen was an American actress and dancer, principally celebrated for her filmed dance partnerships with Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Danny Kaye and Donald O'Connor.-Early life:...

, Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran

Steve Cochran was an American film, television, and stage actor, the son of a California lumberman. He graduated from the University of Wyoming in 1939...

, and Eve Arden

Eve Arden

Eve Arden was an American actress. Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in...

, about a milkman who becomes world boxing champion.

Directed by Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Z. McLeod

Norman Zenos McLeod was an American film director, cartoonist and writer...

 and produced by Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn was an American film producer, and founding contributor executive of several motion picture studios.-Biography:...

, it is a remake of the 1936 Harold Lloyd

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd, Sr. was an American film actor and producer, most famous for his silent comedies....

 film The Milky Way

The Milky Way (1936 film)

The Milky Way is a 1936 comedy film starring Harold Lloyd. Directed by comedy veteran Leo McCarey, the film was written by Grover Jones, Frank Butler and Richard Connell based on a play of the same name by Lynn Root and Harry Clork which was presented on Broadway in 1934.An example of the popular...

. Lionel Stander

Lionel Stander

Lionel Jay Stander was an American actor in films, radio, theater and television.-Early life and career:Lionel Stander was born in The Bronx, New York, to Russian Jewish immigrants, the first of three children...

 played the role of "Spider" Schultz in both versions of the movie.

Plot

Enthusiastic but accident-prone milkman

Milkman

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 Burleigh Sullivan accidentally knocks out drunken 'Speed' McFarlane, a champion boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

who, with his bodyguard, was flirting with Burleigh's sister.

The newspapers pick up the story and photographers catch Burleigh knocking out Speed again (mainly due to Sullivan's quick foot-work and propensity for ducking). Speed's manager decides to turn Burleigh into a fighter.

Burleigh doesn't realize that all of his opponents have been asked to 'take a dive' to build up his image. Coming to think that he really is a great fighter, Burleigh develops a swollen head, which puts a crimp in his relationship with pretty nightclub singer Polly Pringle.

He may finally get his comeuppance when he challenges Speed for the title.