Capo
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Post by Capo on Aug 4, 2007 23:24:34 GMT
The Set-Up Robert Wise 1949 USA An ageing boxer fights his last bout despite angst from his girlfriend, and the fact he's supposed to lose in a staged knockout. One of those rapid, brief B-movie productions made on an assembly line of forgotten masterpieces, by Wise, who here shows himself to be a very efficient, economic filmmaker - in the implicit, exciting exposition of narrative, in the tense, atmospheric bulk of the boxing fight itself, in the succinct, satisfying climax. Studio-bound, of course, but with an air of sweaty, dingy seediness hanging over it; you can't help but imagine that the sweat, blood and tears are in some way inherited from the rapid, low-budget production itself.
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