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The Set-Up (1949 film) The Set-Up. (1949 film) 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 was the last film Wise made for RKO, and he ...
- Richard Goldstone
- C. Bakaleinikoff
- March 29, 1949 (United States)
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
Until a brutal little trifle called Raging Bull captured the belt in 1980, many people considered Robert Wise's The Set-Up to be the best boxing movie ever made. Although Wise, who shot his film in 1949, had nowhere near the amount of script freedom that Martin Scorsese would enjoy thirty years later, he still delivered a hard-hitting expose on the lowest levels of the fight game.
- Robert Wise, Edward Killy
- Robert Ryan
Cast (in credits order) verified as complete. Robert Ryan. ... Bill 'Stoker' Thompson. Audrey Totter. ... Julie Thompson. George Tobias.
American auteur Robert Wise's film noir boxing drama The Set-Up (1949) is really interesting. Wise sets a reflective, mature, and serious tone. From boxer's waiting to fight to the consequences of ...
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- 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 ...
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