A Pit Boy's Romance (1917)
A Pit Boy's Romance is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by A.E. Coleby and Arthur Rooke and starring Jimmy Wilde, Tommy Noble and Arthur Rooke. The film ends with the villain's protégé losing a boxing match to the hero, a plot similar to that of Coleby's film of the previous year Kent, the Fighting Man.
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