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The Little Bantamweight

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The Little Bantamweight

1938

0h 8m

7.2(5 votes)

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Family

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The big bantamweight fight is in a few months and papa rooster is getting nervous: the eggs start hatching, and all the males look like real fighters - except for one little runt.

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Directed by: Rudolf Ising

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