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The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March.
A boxing manager betrays his fighter by taking bribes from a gambling gangster. The film follows the fighter's last fight in real time, with a tense and atmospheric style.
- (10K)
- Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
- Robert Wise
- 1949-04-02
Oscar-nominee Robert Ryan ("Crossfire") stars in this unique narrative covering only 72 minutes in the life of an over-the-hill boxer.
A boxer on the wane, Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is determined to stay in the game, in spite of his wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), who wants him to leave the...
- (13)
- Robert Ryan
- Robert Wise
- Drama
- The film is based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March who wrote a second long-form narrative poem in the 20s called “The Wild Party” about a week-long celebration during Prohibition.
- The film opens with a clock face showing 9:05 and Wise closes the film with the same clock roughly the length of the film later.
- Scorsese first watched this film on 16mm during a college film course. It was his first exposure to the boxing drama because “for some reason I had missed it in my movie-going when I was 7 or 8 years old in 1949.”
- He showed this film on 35mm to the cast and crew of The Aviator (2004) during production.
Dec 24, 2019 · The Set Up: Directed by Niyi Akinmolayan. With Sunny Ajaero, Dakore Akande, Uzor Arukwe, Ayoola Ayolola. A former drug smuggler and a confidence artist gets more than she bargains for when she is hired by a down on his luck businessman to assist with his scheme to marry a wealthy heiress.
Set-Up, The (1949) -- (Movie Clip) Everybody Makes Book On Something Philosophical low-rent boxers, Stoker (Robert Ryan), pre-fight in the locker room, with delusional Gunboat (David Clarke), Gus (Wallace Ford), Tony (Philip Pine) and Mickey (David Fresco), in Robert Wise's The Set-Up, 1949.
