It is the usual Universal Studios film about boxing, showing prizefighters having some personal problems with people around them. See for instance Joseph Pevney's IRON MAN or FLESH AND FURY - starring the same Tony Curtis, or WORLD IN MY CORNER, starring Audie Murphy. Not bad features, but far from the likes of Mark Ronson's THE CHAMPION or Robert Wise's SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME and THE SET UP - probably, for my taste, the best film ever about boxing; or also Ralph Nelson's REQUIEM FOR A HEAVY WEIGHT...
Back to this one, you may like it or not, but it's rather rare and Jerry Hooper was a good film maker, perhaps lacking ambition, but a real pro. So, nothing special for this feature you may forget as soon as you leave the theatre or switch off the TV set. Nothing poignant, and everything predictable. Curtis tepid, as usual, except some movies such as TRAPEZE or SWWET SMELL OF SUCCESS. But Universal films were never charmless; flat, perhaps, but not boring.
Back to this one, you may like it or not, but it's rather rare and Jerry Hooper was a good film maker, perhaps lacking ambition, but a real pro. So, nothing special for this feature you may forget as soon as you leave the theatre or switch off the TV set. Nothing poignant, and everything predictable. Curtis tepid, as usual, except some movies such as TRAPEZE or SWWET SMELL OF SUCCESS. But Universal films were never charmless; flat, perhaps, but not boring.