Terrific boxing movie film noir whose writer Abe Polonsky and star both fell foul of HUAC. John Garfield is great as poor Jew turned boxing sensation, realises the fight game is rigged, but by then only cares about the money. GF Lili Palmer and mum Anne Revere and pal Joseph Penney are on his corner but can’t overcome shady manager William Conrad and femme fatale Hazel Brooks. Nice structure as film starts later on in the story. Good montage work by Gunter Von Fritsch. Good support too from Canada Lee as injured boxer. Jimmy Wong Howe shot it, Hugo Friedhofer provides the music. Really good.
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