Amazon.com video review:
Humphrey Bogart's final screen role was in this 1956 film by Mark
Robson (Home of the Brave), about a cynical sportswriter who becomes
a press
agent and sees firsthand how badly boxers are used and manipulated by
crooked managers. The story finds Bogart's character waffling about the
ethics
surrounding the exploitation of an overrated fighter who will earn money
for
his handlers in the short term, then be tossed onto the scrap heap. This is a
very
tough tale written by Budd Schulberg and shot with determined
unromanticism;
the boxing sequences are among the most striking and violent ever committed
to
film. Jan Sterling plays Bogart's wife, who watches him vacillate
about whether to expose the fight syndicate as a racket. --Tom Keogh
