John Huston's tired-blooded treatment of the Leonard Gardner novel about has-been and would-be prizefighters stagnating in Stockton, California. Some of the dialogue, lifted en bloc from the novel, is approximately in Ring Lardner's arena, but it is watered down with humanitarian sentiment. The way he handles this promising material, Huston seems almost as shiftless, unimaginative, and flat-footed as his characters. He calls upon a Kris Kristofferson tune to set the mood at the outset, and he carries on from there as though humming the same, nonstop, in his head. With Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, and Susan Tyrrell. (1972) — Duncan Shepherd
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