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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


Midge has started badly but it will be good.

I promise, will make you happy.

I'm going, now there is nothing to prevent it.

Is the same. This had to end like this.

I have done my duty.

Do what you want.

Come on, Connie.

Emma, ...

What are you waiting?

Midge. Midge!

Wait a minute.

You married, do not leave.

Marry?

Is that what you call it marriage? It's a trap.

The plotted together.

Midge...

Hush, do not give me more advice.

I have had enough.

If both want, stay with it.

But I'm out of here.

- Are you coming or not?

- As you wish, Midge.

EMPLOYMENT OFFICE

GYM BRADEY:

- Is Johnny Haley?

- Johnny Haley?

You mean Tommy Haley.

Yes.

Sure it is. You must go around.

Thank you.

Hello, Mr. Haley.

Why, it's Kansas City, how are you?

And that eye?

Pulling.

I'm glad, you see more with two eyes.

He told me to find him, do you remember?

Yes, I think, but I have retired.

No undefeated, but retired.

Do you allow some advice? Do the same.

You volunteered to be my manager

and told me to find him.

That was then, now is now.

Everything changes.

I have retired from boxing.

It sucks, really.

Take a deep breath in here sucks.

And no sweat, this is not good.

Who are you?

His brother.

You look like a boy hustler, no

want to be devoted to boxing.

That's their problem.

Go back home.

What I go to my house?

Do not need you. It is the sole manager.

I'll find another, I see.

What about you?

Do you know the amount

of hits you get...

...In the stomach for a fight?

The human body has not been done

to fight in a ring, Greem.

If you hit a man

followed hard on the head,...

...Even once...

...You can damage your brain

and even kill him.

And for what?

Why fill a room?

Why fill the bag to a stranger?

How do you demonstrate that?

Is it a way of living?

Forget it, kid.

- Hi, Tommy.

- Hello, Rubio.

It is the only sport in which

two types paid to do something,...

...That if they were free and drunk,

would be arrested for it.

If you have that opinion,

Why keep coming here?

Good, some are given by the bottle,...

I enjoy watching...

the boys in action.

Here, give it back when working.

Keep it, find work...

...A cook, waiter

or digging ditches.

Honest work, clean and healthy.

And I forrar.

You told me in

Boxing had pasta.

Be my manager and I will win for both.

- Yes?

- I bet you want.

Okay, I will.

Well.

But attention to this.

Just be your manager as

think you can go.

I'm not interested in fighting

club or $ 50 bags.

And work hard.

You will work hard

rather than in your entire life.

Until the bones are

creak with the effort...

...And until you learn to

to break a man.

teach you all the tricks

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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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