The Set-Up
Stoker Thompson is a 35-year-old has-been boxer. His once-promising fighting career has come crashing to the end. Tiny, Stoker’s manager, is sure he will continue to lose fights, so he takes money for a “dive” from a mobster, but is so sure that Thompson will lose that he doesn’t tell the boxer about the set-up. At the beginning of the last round of the vicious boxing match he learns of the fix.
Views: 80
Genre: Best Film-Noir, Best Sport, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
Director: Robert Wise
Actors: Alan Baxter, Audrey Totter, Darryl Hickman, George Tobias, Hal Baylor, James Edwards, Kevin O'Morrison, Percy Helton, Robert Ryan, Wallace Ford
Country: United States of America
Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award, 2 wins & 2 nominations total
Duration:
1h 13minRelease: 1949
Release Date: 1949-03-29
IMDb: 7.8
TMDB: 7.301
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
FilmAffinity: 7.6