Which 1917 British silent drama film stars the professional boxer with the nickname "The Mighty Atom"?
A Pit Boy's Romance A Pit Boy's Romance is a 1917 British silent drama film directed by A.E. Coleby and Arthur Rooke and starring Jimmy Wilde, Tommy Noble and Arthur Rooke. The film ends with the villain's protégé losing a boxing match to the hero, a plot similar to that of Coleby's film of the previous year "Kent, the Fighting Man".
Roland Todd Roland Todd (14 January 1900 — 22 May 1969 (aged 69)) born in Marylebone London was an English professional middle/light heavyweight boxer of the 1910s, and 1920s, who won the National Sporting Club (NSC) (subsequently known as the British Boxing Board of Control (BBBofC)) British middleweight title, British Empire middleweight title, and European Boxing Union (EBU) middleweight title, his professional fighting weight varied from 157 lb , i.e. middleweight to 169 lb , i.e. light heavyweight, After boxing he worked on the railways until his retirement in 1965, after being knocked down by a car on 18 May 1969 close to his home in Bentley, Doncaster, he never regained consciousness, and died in Doncaster Royal Infirmary on 22 May 1969.