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Synopsis: Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. Arrived in California, Midge and Connie find nothing but a menial job from which Midge gets relief by seducing Emma, a lovely young waitress. One shotgun marriage later, ambitious Midge falls back on the only option he knows: boxing. Seduced by cheering crowds, money, and a succession of blondes, Midge becomes more and more of a hero in public...and a heel in private.
Director(s): Mark Robson
Production: United Artists
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 1 win & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.4
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
APPROVED
Year:
1949
99 min
678 Views


What can you do here?

So many things.

There are many who consider a

lucky to have so close to the beach.

And they're right.

What do you think?

We will go after work, okay?

I'll teach you to swim like a fish.

Come on, answer, what do you think?

Can.

I was afraid you would not come.

Lew has taken is to fall asleep.

Well, we hit the water?

Do not you bring towel?

Dry off with mine.

No, I do not need.

Please go to catch a cold.

Well, but before you dry up to you.

You're just like...

Like all.

No.

I am special.

Slightly stupid.

It's funny.

What?

At first I liked you.

He did not smile ever.

And I mean really smile.

With sincerity.

To really smile

have to be happy.

Are not you happy?

Well, now I am.

Then he smiles.

Midge.

Why are not you happy?

Happy? Poverty is

odds with happiness.

And I've been poor all my life.

Very poor.

You know what it means to be poor?

Does having cold, starving?

No, do not know.

When he was four years

My father left home.

My mother could not keep

Connie and me, so...

...Sent me to an orphanage

until I was old enough to work.

He dreamed of being rich one day.

Hire detectives

to seek my father.

And then break his head.

Nonsense kids.

Our lives are parallel.

Also my mother was

home when I was little.

Before he hated, but now I

I understand certain things.

I do not hate my father. Can

to do well. This life...

What? More.

For this reason a man

struggle against man.

In this life, if you have

money, you're nobody.

It's not so bad. Not always.

You do not know...

...But I will very far.

I earn money and look after my old one.

I will not be a nobody

until I die.

People will call me sir.

I will be an important character.

Will be.

It's late.

Really, it's late.

Well.

You know what time is it?

Where were you?

On the beach.

Alone?

Hey, you want to fire those guys?

Stay away from them. None of them.

Provided by hiding.

You're just like your mother.

A number 6 with black bread, no mustard.

Honey.

Midge.

I am a traitor.

When will we tell?

Tell him what?

What we're getting married soon.

We got married, right?

No?

No, never.

I would not be possible.

I have not a penny, nothing.

It would be very bad for both.

Was it bad?

Sure.

Honey,...

...Is not the time.

We are not prepared.

Why can not

Business as usual?

You know how I feel about you.

You're a disgrace.

And you...

No, Lew, we're getting married.

Of course you do.

Of course not.

I know what you think, do not try.

The law is on my side,

did not get far.

By the authority given to me

the state of California.

Thank you very much and good luck to them.

Good night.

Thank you.

Midge, I did not want it that way.

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Carl Foreman

Carl Foreman, CBE (July 23, 1914 – June 26, 1984) was an American screenwriter and film producer who wrote the award-winning films The Bridge on the River Kwai and High Noon among others. He was one of the screenwriters that were blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s because of their suspected Communist sympathy or membership in the Communist Party. more…

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