“World In My Corner” (1956) is a film noir of sorts, starring Audie Murphy as a boxer who falls in love with his milionaire sponsor’s daughter (played by Barbara Rush). The film is of little distinction–except for a very cool credit sequence that I’ve posted above. I’m not sure what led to the outpouring of creativity that delivered the wittily accomplished credits–they’re printed on what appears to be different pages of a newspaper–but perhaps it sapped up all the available creative juices, leaving the film itself to flounder on its own. Aside from the credits, the most interesting thing about ‘World In My Corner’ is a beyond snarky pan it received from the New York Times film critic Milton Esterow, which I print in full below.

“The prizefighters on the Palace screen are getting thinner. The Palace ring dramas aren’t putting on any weight, either. The theatre’s last fight film was about a middleweight (160 pounds). Yesterday’s offering, ‘World in My Corner,” concerns a welterweight (147 pounds). … Universal-International keeps the leather flying with the aid of a gent named Chico Vejar, who has been in the ring for real. But please, U-I, hang up the gloves and toss in the towel for a while. We’re getting a little punchy.”