The Harder They Fall

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Jack P @RT09552425 Jan 12 The movie is worth just watching Humphrey Bogart and Rod Steiger, two of the greatest actors ever, play off each other. See more Martin B @RT44235356 Dec 17 One of the finest 50's era films I can recall seeing. Bogart at his weary mid life best playing a weary writer at his mid life best was brilliant. See more Russ G @RT78760655 Jul 24 Bogie's swan song; I believe it was self-financed or heavily backed with Bogie's own money, similar to "Beat the Devil," though I could be wrong. Worth a watch but it's not Mr. Bogart's best work and it's dark. See more Jed M. @Jed76 Jul 20 Bogearts last film before his death, great noir film about the boxing industry in the 40’s and 50’s. See more acsdoug D @acsdoug 10/28/2024 Bogart was deathly sick while filming this one. Perhaps he looked a little tired, but other than that you would never know it. The movie is a good one as well. See more W B @RT74127158 06/05/2024 This is Bogart's last movie before his untimely death. An obviously ill Bogart presents a powerful image of an individual coming to the realization that his favorite reporting sport (boxing) is rapidly deteriorating; it is fictionally as ill as he was in real life. The now puffy & prematurely wrinkle faced Bogart clearly demonstrates the dichotomy between the rapid decline in the purity of the sport and the growth of corruption as manifested by the prostitution of the skills of the individual boxers and their total abandonment once their “usefulness” is exhausted: “Boxers come and go but their managers go on forever!” Steiger presents as a thoroughly corrupt individual devoid of any human empathy. The only affection or “love” he demonstrates is that which is derived from a positive balance sheet and the misuse of every human being unfortunate enough to have fallen into his personal orbit. The oft quoted, “No one gets hurt” rapidly becomes a piece of farce; representing the ultimate prostitution of both the sport and those involved with it at all levels. It is an expose as valid today as it was 60+ years ago. W.D. Bruni See more Read all reviews

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