The Set-Up

You train a washed-up boxer for one last purse and skim his bets for a fixer who pays in double-shifts and dead-end alleyways. Then the gangster eyes the main event with a different kind of leverage. Robert Wise stages 1949 neon and back-alley grime until the ring ropes tighten around every loose end.

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The Set-Up was released in 1949 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 73 minutes.