World in My Corner


World in My Corner is a 1956 film noir drama sport film directed by Jesse Hibbs and starring Audie Murphy and Barbara Rush. It was one of the few non-Westerns Murphy made in his career.

Premise

Tommy Shea, a boxer from Jersey City, is sponsored by millionaire Robert Mallinson. He falls for Mallinson's daughter, Dorothy and decides to work for crooked fight promoter Harry Cram to earn the money to keep her in the style to which she has become accustomed.

Cast

The film was Murphy's first following the tremendous box office success of To Hell and Back and used the same producer and director as that film. Murphy fights with several real life boxers on screen, including Chico Vejar, Art Aragon and Cisco Andrade. Andrade later praised Murphy as being "the first actor I ever saw who wasn't afraid of getting hit hard in a prize fight scene."

Response

According to Murphy's biographer, the film "didn't do anything at the box office".