One friend found this movie drab and depressing .  Well, that's true I guess .  It is also a great movie due to its several memorable spoken lines, action scenes of bare knuckle fighting for money that put you on the edge of your seat ,  the way the hero tries to woo the woman without taking any guff from her,  the contrast between grim economic survival and living it up,  the man of appearances and the man of genuine character ....