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The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. 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.
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- 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
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The Set-Up is a 1949 film noir directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan as a boxer who faces a fixed fight. See the full list of cast and crew members, including writers, producers, cinematographers, editors and more.
A boxer on the wane, Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is determined to stay in the game, in spite of his wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), who wants him to leave...
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The Set-Up is a 1949 film directed by Robert Wise and written by Art Cohn and Joseph Moncure March. It tells the story of a boxing manager who betrays his fighter for a gangster's bribe.
