The Set - Up (1949)

We’re crossing into the seedy sporting life for our film noir theme we’re calling “THE LEFT HAND ENDEAVOR” and what sport feels more noir than boxing? Stoker feels like he’s got one more good fight in him but his poor wife is sick of seeing his battered mug. She doesn’t want the violence to ruin her marriage. Meanwhile, some scuzzy managers are making a set-up bet that they don’t want to let the older boxer in on. Stoker drops any other time so maybe he doesn’t need to know, right? We’re taking in the rich environments and vivid characters in Robert Wise’s 1949 boxing noir “THE SET-UP” and it’s maybe a little too loose from the themes of it’s original source material (a poem by Jospeh M. March) but a very worthy boxing feature in and of itself. It stars Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias and more. Will Stoker come out on top and get one more chance to hold his head up high or will he help his managers fill a gangster’s pockets? It’s a breezy noir to sit through with an exciting boxing match to boot. Check it out here if you like: https://archive.org/details/1949thesetupnadiepuedevencermecombatetrucadorobertwise Subscribe to us on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuJf3lkRI-BLUTsLI_ehOsg Contact us here: [email protected] Hear us on podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6o6PSNJFGXJeENgqtPY4h7 Our OG podcast “Documenteers”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/documenteers-the-documentary-podcast/id1321652249 Soundcloud feed: https://soundcloud.com/documenteers Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/culturewrought