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Best movie of this year hands down!

Great Film overall

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Wonderful movie; good acting, meaningful plot, and film noir ending, but still storywise a missed opportunity of greatness.Spoilers ahead:Why did the scriptwriters not opt for the following: letting the main character get it all: the ultimate wrestling match, only to witness the death of the old master wrestler Gergorius (Stanislaus Zbyszko) afterwards? The character Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) would really have had it all: fame, fortune but also the ultimate bad luck. Gregorius' son would want to revenge him, as in the movie but only later. In this scenario Fabian could have offered something in his sacrifice, namely his fortune to his girlfriend before dying at the hands of gangsters hired by the son of Gergorius (Herbert Lom). That would have been a powerful ending, also showing how fickle fame and fortune is, how the tide can change even after you think all is settled. It could still have given the subplot to make Fabian fight for the money with Philip Nosseross to get the match, but it could have been a smaller part of the movie. Instead, the movie chose to let Gergorius die early in a fistfight without public, making clear there would never be a fight, and putting too much emphasis on a manhunt of Harry Fabian. It basically prematurely killed the movie and the ending, since the girl got nothing in the end. Or maybe it just was not my taste, since after all this was the ultimate noir ending, with no happy endings for anyone.

A small-time grifter and nightclub tout (Richard Widmark) takes advantage of some fortuitous circumstances and tries to become a big-time player as a wrestling promoter.Jules Dassin can do film noir. And interestingly, he seems to do it best when he is a hated man. At the time this film was made, he was recently kicked out of Hollywood for his alleged Communist sympathies. And what does he do? A one-two punch of this film and "Rififi", probably his two finest works.Of course, some credit must be given to cameraman Mutz Greenbaum. Any time you have noir, it has to look the part -- the genre is just as much an art form as it is a kind of plot.

It might be considered as masterpiece by others but i watch movies for entertainment which it failed to deliver.cinematography was excellent. Acting performance by all the actors was good. wrestling match was boring and unwatchableWorst thing in this movie was script it goes like-wait i have no money i can't love anyone -wait i have no money for my dream,i am a looser -wait i have got enemies -wait i will do this and then that and then that PROBLEM WILL BE SOLVEDALL OF THIS HAPPENING IN A JIFFY!!Completely boring and tedious to sit through.

Jules Dassin directs this gritty and cerebral film noir. Harry Fabian(Richard Widmark)is a small time promoter in London that is known for his many schemes that go awry. Harry comes up with a sure fire idea that will make him the ruler of professional wrestling in every ring of London. He needs to con his girlfriend's(Gene Tierney)nightclub owner boss(Francis L. Sullivan)in staking him in this latest scheme. Pitting a wrestling promoter against his own son should be able to put money in Fabian's pocket and allow him to inherit the wrestling racket; but his brains don't match his ambitions. Owing to much money to too many people is always problem number one for the lowlife grifter. Widmark is perfect for the role with his brooding manner and devious grin and laughter. Tierney leaves you to smolder. The supporting cast is strong and features: Googie Withers, Herbert Lom, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Mike Mazurki and Ada Reeve.