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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.
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 (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 ...
The Set-Up is a gritty drama centring on washed-up boxer Bill (“Stoker”) Thompson (played by Robert Ryan). Thompson’s attempt at a comeback is undermined by his own manager and trainer, who secretly accept a gambler’s bribe for him to throw his next fight.
Sep 12, 2019 · The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so-called sweet science. Robert Wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the...
An aging boxer attempts to prove that he still has what it takes and defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight. 94 IMDb 7.8 1 h 12 min 1949. X-Ray 13+.
Manipulation and personal vendettas collide when a con artist hires a young woman to assist with his scheme to marry a wealthy heiress. Watch trailers & learn more.
Overview. Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. Robert Wise. Director, Screenplay. Art Cohn. Screenplay. Joseph Moncure March.
