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Running time. 72 minutes. Country. United States. Language. English. The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan [1] and Audrey Totter. [2] [3] The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March.
The Set-Up: Directed by Robert Wise. With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter. Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
- (10K)
- Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
- Robert Wise
- 1949-04-02
The Set-Up (1949), with a script based on a long narrative poem, is one of the great boxing films in an era in which there were many, such as the noir Body and Soul (1947) and the marginally noir Champion (1949). Told in real time, the 72-minute film is also set entirely at night, and rarely has a film captured a sense of fatalism and doom as ...
- Robert Wise, Edward Killy
- Robert Ryan
The Set-Up (1949) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
American auteur Robert Wise's film noir boxing drama The Set-Up (1949) is really interesting. Wise sets a reflective, mature, and serious tone.
- (127)
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Wise
- Drama
The Set-Up, American film noir, released in 1949, that was noted for its indictment of crime’s influence in boxing and for playing out in real time. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.) The Set-Up is a gritty drama centring on washed-up boxer Bill (“Stoker”) Thompson (played by Robert Ryan ). Thompson’s attempt at a ...
