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As shown by the clock face that opens and closes the film, The Set-Up takes place within a compact 72 minutes, with the action played out in "real time." Robert Wise's blistering tour de force on the fight game, a key influence on Martin Scorsese's seminal Raging Bull (1980), remains one of the best films on that world. An undefeated boxing champion while at Dartmouth, Robert Ryan gives what's likely his best performance as the over-the-hill pug who balks when ordered by his manager to throw a fight. Wise throws the harshest possible light not only on the well-known corruption of game, on the seediness of the milieu, and the grueling punishment absorbed by the fighters, but also on the febrile bloodlust of the fans, for whom the director reserves his greatest revulsion. As the film unfolds in "real" time, it touches briefly on the range of boxers on that night's card, and from the nervous young kid to the washed-up middle-weight, all are equally mesmerized by the mythology of their craft. In the main event, Ryan absorbs perhaps the worst pre-Scorsese battering on celluloid. Noir icon Audrey Totter evinces an unexpected tenderness as Ryan's concerned wife, and James Edwards is poignant as a fighter on the slide. <br />
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Robert Ryan - Bill "Stoker" Thompson <br />
Audrey Totter - Julie Thompson <br />
George Tobias - Tiny <br />
Alan Baxter - Little Boy <br />
Wallace Ford - Gus <br />
Percy Helton - Red <br />
Hal Fieberling - Tiger Nelson <br />
Darryl Hickman - Shanley <br />
Kenny O'Morrison - Moore <br />
James Edwards - Luther Hawkins <br />
David Clarke - Gunboat Johnson <br />
Phillip Pine - Tony Souza <br />
Edwin Max - Danny <br />
Herbert Anderson - Husband <br />
Herman Boden <br />
Ruth Brennan - Woman <br />
Helen Brown - Wife <br />
John Butler - Man <br />
Lillian Castle <br />
Kid Chissel - Handler <br />
Gene Delmont - Handler <br />
Abe Dinovitch - Ring Caller <br />
Paul Dubov - Gambler <br />
Dan Foster - Man <br />
Dave Fresco - Mickey <br />
Bernard Gorcey - Tobacco Man <br />
William E. Green - Doctor <br />
Donald Kerr - Man <br />
Jess Kirkpatrick - Gambler <br />
Michael Lally - Handler <br />
Dwight Martin - Glutton <br />
Tony Merrill - Man <br />
Lynne Millan - Bunny <br />
Frank Mills - Photographer <br />
Tommy Noonan - Man <br />
W.J. O'Brien - Pitchman <br />
Brian O'Hara - Man <br />
Jack Raymond - Husband <br />
Al Rhein - Man <br />
Frank Richards - Bat <br />
Walter Ridge - Manager <br />
Sammy Shack - Man <br />
Carl Sklover - Man <br />
Everett Smith - Man <br />
Billy Snyder - Barker <br />
Jack Stoney - Nelson's Second <br />
Arthur Sullivan - Handler <br />
Charles Sullivan - Man <br />
Ralph Volkie - Man <br />
Charles Wagenheim - Hamburger Man <br />
Constance Worth - Wife <br />
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