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Day of the Fight (1951) More at IMDbPro »

• It cost Stanley Kubrick $3,900 to make and he sold it (to RKO) for $4,000.
  
  
• The final sequence (the Walter Cartier vs. Bobby James bout) was filmed live on 17 April 17 1950 by Stanley Kubrick and Alexander Singer.
  
  
• The film premiered as part of RKO-Pathé's "This Is America" series and opened at the Paramount Theater in New York on 26 April 26 1951 as a short subject in a program featuring My Forbidden Past (1951). Headlining in a live stage show was Frank Sinatra, which also featured an appearance by blond bombshell Dagmar.
  
  
• If you look closely, at times you can see Kubrick operating a film camera.
  
  

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