His last film for RKO The Set-Up (1949) was a realistic boxing movie in which Wise portrayed the sport as cruel and exploitative.Gehring, p. 128. The film also included choreographed fight scenes and "set the bar" for other fight films.Gehring, p. 130 and 133. The film earned the Critic's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Gehring, p. 126. Wise's use and mention of time in this film would echo in later noir films such as Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).
His last film for RKO The Set-Up (1949) was a realistic boxing movie in which Wise portrayed the sport as cruel and exploitative.Gehring p 128. The film also included choreographed fight scenes and "set the bar" for other fight films.Gehring, p. 130 and 133. The film earned the Critic's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.Gehring, p. 126. Wise's use and mention of time in this film would echo in later noir films such as Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956) and Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).