Little Orphan Annie (1938)

Annie Ann Gillis an orphan based on Harold Grays comic strip but who is at no point in the film called Little Orphan Annie is befriended by a fight manager Pop Corrigan J Farrell MacDonald She brings him Johnny Adams Robert Kent a promising prizefighter Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training But on the night of Johnnys big fight a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment