The Harder They Fall

The Harder They Fall is a 1956 film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film. It was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Budd Schulberg.

Sportswriter Eddie Willis Humphrey Bogart is broke after the newspaper he works for goes under. He is hired by crooked boxing promoter Nick Benko Rod Steiger to publicize his new boxer, a huge, but slowwitted and untalented Argentinian named Toro Moreno Mike Lane.Unbeknownst to Toro and his friend and manager Lus Agrandi Carlos Montalbn, all of his fights had been fixed to make the public believe that he is for real. After a short time, Benko gets Toro into a match against Gus Dundee Pat Comiskey, the exheavyweight champ, before the title fight against Buddy Brannen Max Baer. Dundee has agreed to lose the fight, as he is suffering headaches and neck pain from his last fight against Brannen. Dundee ends up collapsing in the ring and later dies of a brain hemorrhage in the hospital. ........

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