THE SET-UP [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Film-Noir
• Plot: Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight.; ; 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 stale-air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing's palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his finest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, like Ryan an icon of the noir genre, plays Stoker's steadfast wife. In a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.
• Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Baylor, Darryl Hickman, Kenny O'Morrison, James Edwards, David Clarke, Phillip Pine, Edwin Max, Herbert Anderson, Burman Bodel, Herman Bodel, Ruth Brennan, Helen Brown, John Butler, Andy Carillo, Lillian Castle, Jack Chase, Noble 'Kid' Chissel, Heinie Conklin, Gene Delmont, Abe Dinovitch, Paul Dubov, Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig, Dan Foster, David Fresco, Bernard Gorcey, William E. Green, Bobby Henshaw, John Indrisano, Donald Kerr, Jess Kirkpatrick, Mike Lally, Archie Leonard, Frances Mack, Dwight Martin, William McCarther, Tony Merrill, Lynn Millan, Frank Mills, Ben Moselle, Tommy Noonan, William J. O'Brien, Brian O'Hara, Jack Perry, Jack Raymond, Al Rhein, Frank Richards, Walter Ridge, Sammy Shack, Carl Sklover, Emmett Smith, Everett Smith, Billy Snyder, Jack Stoney, Arthur Sullivan, Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Ralph Volkie, Charles Wagenheim, Constance Worth, Robert Wise, Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
• Director: Robert Wise
• Runtime: 1:12
• Company: Warner Home Video, RKO Radio Pictures
• Media Format: Movie