The Set-Up

• Movie

  Type

• 1949

  Year

• 1h 13m

  Runtime

• ★ 7.1

  Rating

• Crime / Drama

  Genre

Stoker 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.

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Cast

Robert Ryan

Stoker

Audrey Totter

Julie

George Tobias

Tiny

Alan Baxter

Little Boy

Wallace Ford

Gus

Percy Helton

Red

Hal Baylor

Tiger Nelson

Darryl Hickman

Shanley

Kevin O'Morrison

Moore

James Edwards

Luther Hawkins

David Clarke

Gunboat Johnson

Phillip Pine

Souza