The Set-Up Page #5

Synopsis: Over-the-hill boxer Bill 'Stoker' Thompson insists he can still win, though his sexy wife Julie pleads with him to quit. But his manager Tiny is so confident he will lose, he takes money for a "dive" from tough gambler Little Boy...without bothering to tell Stoker. Tension builds as Stoker hopes to "take" Tiger Nelson, unaware of what will happen to him if he does.
Director(s): Robert Wise
Production: RKO Pictures
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
1949
73 min
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Come in and stay as long as you want!

You got nothing to lose but your worries!

Come on in and have fun!

It's free on the inside!

Lookie, lookie, lookie

what we've got!

We're having lots of fun in the Fun Palace!

Meet Madame Lorenza!

She tells your past, your present!

What would you like to know

about your future?

Step right in on the inside!

Come in!

Shoot down those little ducks and take

a kewpie home! Step right in on the inside!

- Your photo in five minutes!

- Now, look at each other! Hold it! Okay!

- Very nice!

- Never a dull moment at the Fun Palace!

There's something for everyone,

from 8 to 80!

Yes, sir! Something to surprise the men

and shock the women, or vice-versa!

Say, you in the blue serge suit!

You look like a man with sporting blood

flowing in your veins!

Would you like to see the forbidden quarter

of Algiers?

Gather around closer, please!

I've a little item to show you!

This is called the ever-writing ballpoint pen!

Sells for $ 15 in the leading stores!

Back up a little, please,

you bother me!

You can write as easy with your left hand

as your right! It doesn't make a difference!

You geeked it!

And I had a buck on you!

You're yellow!

You should've taken that with you!

- Maybe you could've hit him with it!

- Leave him alone!

He don't mean nothing, Tony!

I don't mind!

A fight's only a fight!

- I still got that million-to-one shot!

- Okay, boys! Main event on!

- Get ready, main event!

- Luth! Intermission's about over!

Hey, Mickey! Give Stoker a hand

with his bandages!

Main event in the ring!

I wish I had the champ in there tonight!

I know I'm right, Gus!

Tell you, I can feel it!

- Okay, boy! Now, let's go!

- Good!

- Luth, let's go home early!

- Why not? It only takes one!

I tell you, Tiny,

you got to let him in on it!

There's no percentage

in smartening up a chump!

- But what if he gets in a lucky punch?

- Stick to your buckets! I'll do the thinking!

- You ready, Stoker?

- Never felt better!

Good! Let's go!

Looks like we get home early, all right!

Hey, why don't you stop that?

Cheating on yourself!

Good crowd!

Make a showing and you're in!

- Watch out!

- What did I tell you?

- I knew I could take him!

- Nice going, Luth!

- Thanks!

- Swell fight!

Hey, Stoker!

Good luck!

Don't go home yet, folks!

There's another bout coming!

And don't forget,

Friday night is wrestling night!

The Lithuanian Angel

against the Masked Mastodon!

And for the first time in Paradise City

they will wrestle

in a ring filled with fish!

Fresh fish! Thank you!

- Red!

- Yeah?

- Where's section C?

- Oh, it's right over there!

Right over here, I've got delicious,

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Art Cohn

Art Cohn (April 5, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American sportswriter, screenwriter and author. Cohn and Hollywood producer Mike Todd died in a plane crash in New Mexico in 1958. more…

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