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  1. The Set-Up is a 1949 American film noir boxing drama directed by Robert Wise and starring Robert Ryan and Audrey Totter. The screenplay was adapted by Art Cohn from a 1928 narrative poem of the same name by Joseph Moncure March.

  2. The Set-Up: Directed by Robert Wise. With Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter. Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

    • (10K)
    • Crime, Film-Noir, Sport
    • Robert Wise
    • 1949-04-02
  3. Oscar-nominee Robert Ryan ("Crossfire") stars in this unique narrative covering only 72 minutes in the life of an over-the-hill boxer.

  4. A young woman gets more than she bargains for and is drawn into a web of deceit when she is hired by a socialite to assist with his scheme to marry a wealthy heiress. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Adesua Etomi-Wellington. Chike.

    • (85)
    • Williams Uzor Arukwe
    • Niyi Akinmolayan
    • 16
  5. A boxer on the wane, Bill "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan) is determined to stay in the game, in spite of his wife, Julie (Audrey Totter), who wants him to leave the dangerous sport.

    • (13)
    • Robert Ryan
    • Robert Wise
    • Drama
  6. The Set-Up, American film noir, released in 1949, that was noted for its indictment of crime’s influence in boxing and for playing out in real time. (Read Gene Tunney’s 1929 Britannica essay on boxing.)

  7. An aging boxer defies the gangsters who've ordered him to throw his last fight.