SET-UP - BLU-1949-ROBERT RYAN-WARNER ARCHIVE COLL

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Film-Noir
• Plot: Boxing Wednesdays. Wrestling on Fridays. Stoker Thompson is on Paradise City's Wednesday card, fighting after the main event. He's been 20 years in the game and is sure he's just one punch away from big paydays. But there's one thing Stoker doesn't yet know: his manager wants him to take a dive tonight. ; ; The Set-Up comes out swinging as one of the great films about the so called sweet science. Robert Wise directs, shaping real-time events into an acclaimed and unsparing film-noir look at the stale air venues, bloodthirsty fans, ring savagery and delusional dreams of boxing's palooka world. Robert Ryan embraces perhaps his finest screen hour as Stoker. Audrey Totter, an icon of the noir genre like Ryan, plays Stoker s steadfast wife. In a sport that would take their last flicker of dignity, the Thompsons are reclaiming theirs.
• Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Baylor, Darryl Hickman, Kevin O'Morrison, James Edwards, David Clarke, Phillip Pine, Edwin Max, Herbert Anderson, Larry Anzalone, Arthur Berkeley, Phil Bloom, Burman Bodel, Herman Boden, Ruth Brennan, Helen Brown, John Butler, Andy Carillo, Lillian Castle, Jack Chase, Noble 'Kid' Chissell, Bud Cokes, Heinie Conklin, Gene Delmont, Abe Dinovitch, Paul Dubov, Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig, Dan Foster, David Fresco, Joseph Glick, Bernard Gorcey, Vincent Graeff, William E. Green, Bobby Henshaw, John Indrisano, Michael Jeffers, Maxine Johnston, Dick Johnstone, Donald Kerr, Jess Kirkpatrick, Joseph La Cava, Mike Lally, Richard LaMarr, Archie Leonard, Frances Mack, Dwight Martin, William McCarter, Mathew McCue, Tony Merrill, Walter Merrill, Lynn Millan, Frank Mills, Ben Moselle, Tommy Noonan, Anton Northpole, William J. O'Brien, Brian O'Hara, Jack Perry, Jack Raymond, Al Rhein, Frank Richards, Walter Ridge, Tony Roux, Sammy Shack, Carl Sklover, Emmett Smith, Everett Smith, Billy Snyder, Ray Spiker, Harold J. Stone, Jack Stoney, Arthur Sullivan, Brick Sullivan, Charles Sullivan, Harry Tenbrook, Ralph Volkie, Charles Wagenheim, Gay Waters, Constance Worth, Robert Wise, Art Cohn, Joseph Moncure March
• Director: Robert Wise
• Runtime: 1:13
• Company: RKO Pictures, Inc., Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
• Media Format: Movie