The Set-Up 1949 123movies

Watch: The Set-Up 1949 123movies, Full Movie Online – Over-the-hill boxer Bill ‘Stoker’ Thompson insists he can still win, though his wife Julie pleads with him to quit. But his manager Tiny is so confident he will lose, he takes money for a “dive” from tough gambler Little Boy…without bothering to tell Stoker. Tension builds as Stoker hopes to “take” Tiger Nelson, unaware of what will happen to him if he does..
Plot: Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
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	7.8/10 Votes: 9,238
	85% | RottenTomatoes
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Reviews:

‘Rocky’ Before There Was A “Rocky’
Fight scenes-wise, this was “Rocky” almost 30 years before there ever was a “Rocky.” It was the same kind of unrelenting (and unrealistic in that no matter how bad the beating the good guy was getting, the good guy couldn’t lose) boxing action that Sylvester Stallone likes so much.

But, don’t get me wrong, I liked this film. It was good stuff. ‘Rocky” was drama, romance while this was film-noir…..and solid film-noir, too.

Robert Ryan, playing a 35-year-old aging rank fighter, gives it his all against an up-and-coming kid, not knowing that he supposed to take a dive. He finally finds this out (his manager didn’t tell him) and by then, he was not going give up trying against his opponent.

There are so many punches thrown in this four-round bout it will make your head swim. The best part of this film, to me, was the cinematography, which was outstanding. Kudos to director Robert Wise for the photography. There are a lot of nice facial closeups in here, all of which look sharp on the recent DVD transfer.

Humor is thrown into this film-noir as we see a variety of boxing fans, from the bloodthirsty woman to a fat man always eating to another guy acting out the action while in his ringside seat. They provide some much- needed respite from the grim story. Ryan, as he usually was, is interesting to watch. The ending of the film is a tough one and, I found tough to watch at times.

Note: the film was done in “real time” – a 72-minute period in the life of the boxer Ryan portrays.

…but the fighter still remains…
I love boxing films, preferably in a vintage black and white Hollywood production like this and have to say this is about the best I’ve ever seen. Other movies either dramatise the life and career of a well-known fighter or portray the boxer becoming a champion or at least a contender. This is different. In “The Set-Up”, Robert Ryan is a washed-up ageing fighter whose long-suffering girlfriend can’t even stand to see him lose one more time. Fighting in cheap joints over four rounds at the end of the bill for $20 or so, this is the epitome of anti-glamour, but even this far down the ladder, the reach of cheap hoodlums looking to make money on the side by fixing fights, encroaches into Ryan’s world, giving the classic boxing dilemma of should he dive or fight.

The settings and acting are almost universally good. In the early stages of the movie, we’re introduced to all the other fighters at different stages of their careers, who all share the same dressing-room with Ryan’s “Stoker” Thompson. By the end, however, after he’s crossed the mob by knocking out their “boy”, he’s alone in the alley way, his future as a fighter crushed, like his punching-hand. And yet there’s a sort of redemption for him, as his girl comes back to him and they consider an enforced future away from the fight game.

This movie runs for only 72 minutes and yet packs a good deal of action, situation and characterisation into its brief running time. There are some superb touches by director Wise, particularly his thumb-nail characterisations of the fight fans at ring-side, including an almost demonic everyday-looking housewife out for blood, the blind guy who gets roused even as he can’t even see the action and humorously, the guy who gets through a four-course fast-food meal in his seat, while watching the bouts.

Unquestionably though, it’s Ryan’s superb acting which carries the film. World-weary at the start, we see him as almost a father figure to his fellow pugilists. Later, with the mob at his back he displays an almost palpable dread, while in the ring itself, he aptly demonstrates that he used to box himself in his younger days.

The fight scenes are terrific, extremely life-like and absolutely gripping – what a great three rounds of boxing the spectators got for their money. The make-up applications on the faces of the beaten-up boxers are worth special mention. Almost the only wrong note is the name of the local mobster who exacts a grim revenge on Ryan – I mean, “Little Boy”…you’ve got to be kidding.

But if that’s my only carp, you can easily tell this was a first-rate realistic drama on the seamy side of boxing at the ground level. It avoids clichés, (for instance, the director purposely doesn’t have Ryan’s girl fill her vacant seat at the fight to inspire his come- back, reinforcing the fact that it’s his own determination and unwillingness to be corrupted, which inspire his some might say fool-hardy courage – look where it got him) and feels as real as you could possibly get.

A knockout, in fact.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 13 min (73 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
Director Robert Wise
Writer Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
Actors Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award2 wins & 2 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Sound System)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 1,990.04 m (copyright length), 1,992 m (Netherlands), 2,520 m (Yugoslavia)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm