- Country: USA
- Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime
- Release: 1949-08-14
- Director: Reginald Le Borg
- Writers: Henry Blankfort , Cy Endfield , Ham Fisher
- Language: English
- Stars: Leon Errol , Joe Kirkwood Jr. , Elyse Knox , Marcel Journet , Sheila Ryan , Harry Lewis , Frank Sully , Ian Wolfe , Sam Hayes , Walter Sande
- Runtime: 74 min
- Awards: N/A
- AKA: Joe Palooka in The Counterpunch , Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (United States of America) , Return Bout (United States of America) , Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch (United Kingdom)
- Plot: Joe Palooka kayos Cardona, but the latter protests that he can beat the champ in his own country - South America. Cardona's manager, Anton Kindel, persuades Palooka's manager, Knobby Walsh, to agree to a return bout in South America in the summer, but Knobby doesn't realize that the South American summer is only four weeks away. When Anne Howe can't accompany boyfriend Palooka on the S.S. Valora, she secretly becomes a reporter assigned to report on his training aboard ship. Myra Madison and Chick Bennett plot to get $20 counterfeit plates to South America, but the plates are stolen from her hotel room. Other ship passengers are Austin, an investigator posing as a writer, and Professor Lilliquist, on his way to the Museum Nacional. Ship Captain Lance announces that, following a knifing, Austin is dead. He was only wounded and asks Joe and Knobby to help him get the counterfeiters. The Professor asks Joe to deliver an ancient Inca statue to the museum, and during the night the statue is switched for one containing the plates.
- IMDB:tt0041525
Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch Cast · · · ALL
Reginald Le Borg
Director
Leon Errol
Knobby Walsh
Joe Kirkwood Jr.
Joe Palooka
Elyse Knox
Anne Howe
Marcel Journet
Anton Kindel
Sheila Ryan
Myra Madison
Harry Lewis
Chick Bennett
Frank Sully
Looie
Ian Wolfe
Professor Lilliquist
Sam Hayes
Fight Announcer
Walter Sande
Austin
Douglass Dumbrille
Captain Lance
Douglas Fowley
Thurston
Eddie Gribbon
Canvasback
Sonny Chorre
Angelo Cardona
Ralph Graves
Dr. Colman
Martin Garralaga
Announcer
Roland Dupree
Bellboy
Gertrude Messinger
Nurse
John Hart
Pedro
Robert Conway
Steward
John Indrisano
Fight Referee
Pedro de Cordoba
Museum Caretaker
Frank Ellis
Policeman
William Roy
Messenger
Paul Stader
Kern