starring Robert Ryan Audrey Totter
'The guy's blown 100 fights already without anybody's help - he ain't gonna need more tonight'.
The guy is ageing, second-rate boxer 'Stoker'
Thompson, unaware that his manager has agreed that he'll lose a match to suit a crooked gambler. The plan goes wrong, however, when
'Stoker' feels that he can actually win this one ...
This taut and often savage film, dominated by Ryan's superb performance, remains Hollywood's best expose of the unglamorous and vicious world of gambling and boxing.
Screenplay by ART COHN based on a poem by JOSEPH MONCURE MARCH Produced by RICHARD GOLDSTONE Directed by ROBERT WISE
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