A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career. Joe Morelli (<a href=">Tom Neal), boxing champion of the U. S. Navy fleet, is being mustered out, against the wishes of his pals and the Commander. Going home, he finds his father, a fishing-boat operator, in financial difficulties, and his foster-brother endangering parental fortunes with his estrangements of fishing crews and shore associates. Further complications arise, including their rivalry for Lisa (<a href=">Wendy Waldron), lead to a situation in which Joe unwillingly agrees to fight a professional-boxer in a winner-take-all bout. Adapted from the "Collier's Magazine" story, of the same title, by Talbert Joselyn. A very entertaining boxing movie. It needs to be put out on VHS so today's audiences can view it. The actor Tom Neal does a good job as a man dedicated to the Navy who becomes a Navy boxing champion. But then because of family financial trouble, he has to consider leaving the Navy. In order to put his family back on sound financial ground, he signs up for a winner take all boxing match. Navy Bound is a serviceable, meat and potatoes melodrama. It has elements of Rocky in the boxing scenes as Joe Morelli a Navy boxing champion returns home on shore leave to help his family out who are in financial trouble as they are on the verge of losing their fishing boat.<br/><br/>There are bust ups with his foster brothers who have turned mean so no one else in town will work for them and then gets an opportunity for a professional fight where he can earn enough money to pay off the debts.<br/><br/>The movie is a 'B' movie without any pretensions but it is not too entertaining but has enough commitment from the actors to make up for its shortcomings.
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