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📅 1949 ⏱️ 73 min ⭐ 7.3/10 👥 179 votes

🎭 Drama, Crime

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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Detailed Plot Summary

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Director

Robert Wise

Main Cast

Robert Ryan as Stoker

Audrey Totter as Julie

George Tobias as Tiny

Alan Baxter as Little Boy

Wallace Ford as Gus

Percy Helton as Red

Hal Baylor as Tiger Nelson

Darryl Hickman as Shanley

Kevin O'Morrison as Moore

James Edwards as Luther Hawkins

David Clarke as Gunboat Johnson

Phillip Pine as Souza

Edwin Max as Danny

Herbert Anderson as Husband (uncredited)

Larry Anzalone as Mexican Fighter (uncredited)

Writers

Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March, Robert Wise

Producers

Dore Schary, Richard Goldstone

Production Information

Release Date: March 29, 1949

Runtime: 73 minutes

Original Language: EN

Production Companies: RKO Radio Pictures

Filming Locations: United States of America

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👤 John Chard ⭐ 9/10

📅 May 31, 2019

Don't you see Bill? You are always just one punch away.

The Set-Up is directed by Robert Wise and stars Robert Ryan & Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 poem written by Joseph Moncure March. The story (played out in real time) sees Ryan as Stoker Thompson, a 35 year old nearly washed up boxer still trundling around the circuit believing he's still got what it takes to become a champ. In spite of pleas from his fretful wife, Julie (Totter), Stoker gets in the r...

👤 griggs79 ⭐ 7/10

📅 March 26, 2025

Solid little noir with a great sense of place—sweaty gyms, grimy streets, and a ticking clock that adds real tension. The boxing scenes pack a punch and the mood’s properly bleak. It’s not top-tier stuff, but at just over an hour, it doesn’t waste your time. Worth a watch.

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