The Set-Up [1949] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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Noir at his best.......2004-07-21

The Set - Up Roberta Wisea is in my own opinion one of the best movies ever about boxing and the people in and around the ring. Although It lacks some of the standard film noir elements it nevertheless ranks as one among the best representatives of the genre. Robert Ryan gives a strong and very powerfull performance of a man who is not willing to sell his own honor and fights to the last regardless of consequences. In the fighting scenes he is very convincing, which is not surprising, since while he was in college he was 4 years heavyveight boxing champion. But his greatest momrent in the film comes when he is cornered in the dead-end alley and the four gangsters slowly approach to him. Jou can plainly read all emotions from his face, no word was necessary. Mixing of fear, worrying, desperately looking for some way out but in the same moment he clearly knows there is none. Unforgettable!
Robert Wise, known for his meticulous work, did spend some time with real boxers inside their dressing rooms, and captured very good the atmosphere among them while they are waiting for their own fight. All the worries, loose conversations, just to kill time, anticipation, hopes, expectations, naturalism to the bone, almost as if you watch some documentary. Although story is not a bit complicated, it is even predictable at a moments we should bear in mind that this movie is based on excellent narrative poem of the same title, by Joseph Moncure March.
Another intresting experiment for that time, two years prior to Fred Zinemann's High Noon, is the unfolding of the story in real time. 73 minutes in a liftime of the aged boxer, at the sunset of his career who still hopes that he's just «one punch away» from fullfilment of his dreams. That one punch he's been waiting for thirty five years.
Truely remarkable movie!!!

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Great value. Great stories. But let's see the early ones on DVD now!.......2007-09-25

All the stories on this two DVD set are highly enjoyable to watch.
It's great that there are so many Postman Pat DVDs available, my only gripe, and it's a big one, is, WHEN are we going to see the CLASSIC Postman Pat stories, the early ones, on DVD?
Pat and the Magpie Hen, The Sheep in the Clover Field, Pat Goes Sledging,Letters on Ice, Pat's Thirsty Day, Pat's Windy Day, Pat's Finding Day and more, I'm sure there is one called Pat's Difficult Day, all those and more have never been released on DVD, and, in my opinion, they are the very best of Postman Pat.
My old VHS tapes containing these stories have been watched so many times they are very much the worse for wear. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE, get them all, Postman Pat 1, and 2, and 3, and Postman Pat's Big Video, please let's have them all on DVD!! I will be one of the first to buy them.

They are putting the old classic Dr.Who stories out on DVD, so please, BBC, do the same for Postman Pat!!

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A Reality check.......2006-10-15

I saw this at the movies when it came out all those years ago, and found it so profound that it's memory still lingers.

Although I did not know it at the time, I had found my 'Jason' and to this day he calls me 'Lyric'. MEN! Watch it if you have not seen it yet, with 'that special person' whom you want to keep; trust me, you'll score points!!

masterpiece.......2003-03-22

This film is a masterpiece, the story unravels its self as you go along. After the death of his Jason’s father the family went into a break up with Jason as the good son in his mother’s eyes but his younger brother holds him responsible for his fatherless childhood, leaving jason a choice between family or love. This film will have you watching throughout it deserves it’s my high rating.

Excellant.......2003-02-22

This is a amazing film....it will keep you hooked on the screen till the end. Emotional and heart aching it shows the relationship between two brothers growin up on two very different paths. i would recommened this film to anyone, it truely is a top ten on my list.

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