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The Set-Up
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780780646384
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 078064638X
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: DT6748D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 06, 2004
Running Time: 72 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: March 29, 1949
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Editorial Review:
Over-the-hill boxer Stoker Thompson thinks he can still win a bout despite doubts from his wife and his manager. He goes into his next fight determined to beat his opponent not realizing his manager has taken money from a tough gambler for having Stoker take a dive. Played out in real time.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 053939674828
This riveting, gut-punching boxing picture plays out in something close to "real time." We are locked in with an over-the-hill pug (Robert Ryan) as he arrives at an arena for a match against a younger opponent. What he doesn't know yet is that his crooked manager has agreed to throw the fight for some gangsters--so Ryan has more than one battle on his hands as each bruising round goes by. At a lean, mean 72 minutes, The Set-Up manages to load the essential film noir themes into one potent package, excitingly delivered with no breathing room. Director Robert Wise would go on to make such mega-productions as The Sound of Music, which only makes you appreciate his economy here. And the movie's a fine showcase for tall, craggy Robert Ryan, one of the great under-sung actors in American movies, who was a boxer himself before becoming an actor. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Story About the Fight Game
The film begins with a boxing match. One man is knocked down. At the "Ringside Cafe" a deal is made with the manager of a boxer; this fight will be fixed. Stoker Thompson is 35, an old man in the boxing game. Julie doesn't want Bill to continue getting beat. The film shows the reaction of the audience to the fight. The film underlines the tawdriness of this business. One boxer has been in the game too long. Julie walks around this shadowy urban neighborhood, and does not go to the fight.
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Rating: - Urban Allegory
More than a movie, this is an urban nightmare. A vision of some never, never land of unending shadows, cheap neons, and throngs of delirious pleasure seekers. They crowd "Dreamland" and the "Fun Arcade" or slip into the burger joint for a greasy slab, while overhead a band blares out a feverish tune. Soon the delirium spreads into the dark as far as the eye can see. And through it all, weaves the camera, in and out, as though we too are trapped in the inferno.
Except that the real pleasure ... Read More
Rating: - The Set-Up
Robert Wise's taut, bruising drama tackles the merciless world of boxing with heavy cynicism but great empathy for the men whose bodies are nothing more than bettors' chips. Ryan, a real-life college boxing champion, is exceptional playing the 35-year-old fighter--an "old man in this business," as his wife reminds him--determined to whip a mobster's punk. And Baxter, whose pinched smirk conveys a world of menace, couldn't be more sinister, especially in the crushing finale. Wise intercuts the bloody, heart ... Read More
Rating: - Watch it back to front with Cinderella Man
It really is essentially the same kind of story, including the wife-boxer husband dynamic, and the broken right hand!
I was surprised at how much I enjoyed this 1949 film noir classic. I have always enjoyed Robert Ryan. So that was a plus, and he didn't disappoint: his boxing experience made the fights very realistic.
This movie is interesting for a variety of reasons. It has no musical score. The plot is raw and the dialogue spare. It uses a "minute is a minute" approach (like in ... Read More
Rating: - One of the most brilliant little films noirs of the Forties that evokes a brilliant feeling for time and place...
Evoking so accurately the seedy, down-at-heel world of the professional boxer, "The Set Up" is right1y regarded as probably the best boxing film ever made...
It was shot in black and white, as was the only other film on the sport to equal it, "Raging Bull" (1980), but the scene of Robert Ryan as the washed-up prize fighter refusing to take a fall and seen slugging it out with Hal Fieberling, nonetheless captures the merciless, stark, brutal quality of the film and its subject...
This ... Read More
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