Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.

• United Artists
• Edward Small Productions
• Jimmy Durante
• Lupe Vélez
• Stuart Erwin
• Marjorie Rambeau
• Thelma Todd
• Robert Armstrong
• Mary Carlisle
• William Cagney