The Set-Up

[Feraud]

The Set-Up, starring Robert Ryan-

Boxing Wednesdays. Wresting on Fridays. Stoker Thomson is on Paradise City’s Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He’s been 20 years in the game and is sure he’s just one punch away from big paydays. But there’s one thing Stoker doesn’t yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.

The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet science. Robert Wise direct, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the state-air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing’s palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his finest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, like Ryan an icon of the noir genre, plays Stoker’s steadfast wife. In a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.

See this film! It is a great one. The director Robert Wise brought us many classic films such as The Sound of Music, The Desert Rats, I Want to Live, The Sand Pebbles.

 

[Trampilot]

I quite agree. This film is excellent and one of the inspirations for the Bruce Willis segement in Pulp Fiction.