Movie
The Set-Up
Overview
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.
Details
- Release date
- 1949-03-29
- Runtime
- 73 min
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Status
- Released
- Production
- RKO Radio Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Robert Ryan as Stoker
- Audrey Totter as Julie
- George Tobias as Tiny
- Alan Baxter as Little Boy
- Wallace Ford as Gus
- Percy Helton as Red
- Hal Baylor as Tiger Nelson
- Darryl Hickman as Shanley
- Kevin O'Morrison as Moore
- James Edwards as Luther Hawkins
- David Clarke as Gunboat Johnson
- Phillip Pine as Souza
Crew
- Robert Wise - Director
- Joseph Moncure March - Writer
- Art Cohn - Screenplay
- Robert Wise - Screenplay
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