Product Information
A down and out sports writer takes a job minding a boxer for a syndicate. Having arranged a title fight he is forced into fixing it by a mobster...Product Identifiers
ProducerPhilip Yordan
EAN5035822002333
eBay Product ID (ePID)3955666
Product Key Features
Actor'jersey' Joe Walcott, Rod Steiger, Max Baer, Edward Andrews, Humphrey Bogart, Jan Sterling, Mike Lane
Film/TV TitleThe Harder They Fall
DirectorMark Robson
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageArabic\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish
Run Time105 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
FormatDVD
Release Year2003
FeaturesBlack & White, Widescreen, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Certificate15
ComposerHugo Friedhofer, Lionel Newman
Production DesignerWilliam Flannery
Additional InformationBud Schulberg's novel is brought to the screen with distinction by Humphrey Bogart in this, his last, role. Eddie Willis (Bogart) is an unemployed sportswriter hired to write about Argentinean boxer Toto Moreno by the boxer's corrupt manager Nick Benko (Rod Steiger). Willis is on the level in the beginning, but when he discovers Benko's obscene exploitation of his young Argentinean protege, the tables turn and Willis to decide to write a piece promoting exposes the racket. Bogart died soon after filming.
ScreenwriterPhilip Yordan, Budd Schulberg
Sound sourceMono
Format DescriptionDVD 5
Movie/TV TitleThe Harder They Fall
EditorJerome Thoms
Director of PhotographyBurnett Guffey