The Set-Up
Crime, Drama, Sports Film · 1949Stoker 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.
- Runtime 1 hour 13 mins
- Released 29th March, 1949
- Director Robert Wise
- Writer Robert Wise Art Cohn Joseph Moncure March
