by Joseph Moncure March. New York, 1925: a fading black middleweight fights for his survival in the cruellest set-up of his career. The Set Up is a story about the harsh underworld of American boxing. Sanitised in the 1947 Robert Ryan movie, Kerry Shale 's adaptation and performance restore
The Set Up to its gripping original. With John Guerassio ,
Malcolm Raeburn , Robert Whelan and Kevin Dyer.