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Plot
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 slow-witted and untalented Argentinian named Toro Moreno (Mike Lane).
Unbeknownst to Toro and his friend and manager Luís Agrandi (Carlos Montalbán), 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 ex-heavyweight 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.
Feeling culpability in Dundee's death, Eddie hesitates in continuing his work in promoting Toro. Despite the misgivings of his wife (Jan Sterling), Benko has already convinced him otherwise due to Eddie wanting a huge pay-day. However, Toro feels guilty over Dundee's death and visits a priest (Paul Frees) who confirms Toro's feelings and agrees with him that he should go home to Argentina. Eddie tracks down Toro at the church and eventually convinces him to fight by telling him that this will be the last for both of them and that he will be able to take much money home to his parents.
In the meantime, Benko has planned for Toro to fight the heavyweight champ. Knowing Toro has no chance, Benko places large bets against his fighter. Toro thinks he can win, but Eddie shows him otherwise by having him knocked down by one of his handlers. Toro is then told how to lose without receiving a beating by staying away from Brannen with his long arm reach and to hug him when he is to close. But, Toro cares about what his friends and family will think about him, so he tries to fight convincingly while being brutally beaten in the process, suffering a broken jaw.
When Eddie goes to get the money owed to him and Toro, he finds out that Benko has rigged the accounting so that Toro ends up getting paid only $49.07. Ashamed, Eddie sends Toro home to Argentina with Eddie's own share of the proceeds, $26,000. When confronted by Benko, Eddie defies him, then begins writing an exposé about corruption in the boxing world.
※This plot is from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harder_They_Fall

Cast
Humphrey Bogart as Eddie Willis ハンフリー・ボガート
Rod Steiger as Nick Benko ロッド・スタイガー
Jan Sterling as Beth Willis ジャン・スターリング
Mike Lane as Toro Moreno マイク・レーン
Edward Andrews as Jim Weyerhause エドワード・アンドリュース
Harold J. Stone as Art Leavitt, TV sportscaster ハロルド・ストーン
Nehemiah Persoff as Leo ネヘマイア・パーソフ

今回は1956年制作、マーク・ロブソン監督の「殴られる男」です。
イングリッド・バーグマンの「六番目の幸福」を監督した監督です。
この映画の主演はハンフリー・ボガート。ボガートはこの映画の公開の翌年1957年1月14日に食道がんで亡くなっているので、本作品が最後の出演作となりました。

映画はボクシング界の内幕を暴露した映画です。はっきり言えば八百長を描いた作品です。
日本でも何年か前、角界で八百長が話題になりましたが、この頃には既にこういうことがあったんですね。
金のためならここまでやるかと思いましたね。
人間金のためなら冷酷なことだってできるのでしょうか。
この映画でキーとなるトロを演じているマイク・レーンという人は元々はレスラーだったようですが、本作品の出演を期に他の映画にもいくつか出演しました。

ともかくこれがボガートの遺作になってしまったのは残念ですね。
大酒飲みでヘビースモーカーだったことが影響したのか、食道がんになってしまい寿命を縮めました。

殴られる男 [ ハンフリー・ボガート ] 価格:1,000円 (2017/12/19 15:05時点) 感想(0件)