A pro football player (Victor Mature) discovers his days as a pro athlete are numbered when he learns that he has a heart condition. His wife (Lizabeth Scott) has ridden his fame as the face of the franchise up into the upper echelons of society and is unprepared to take on the role of a wife of an assistant coach for a college team since this is the best option left open to her husband given his condition. So the questions are will Mature die on the gridiron or start coaching and dump his socialite aspiring wife, or will she dump him. Lizabeth Scott is perhaps the best reason for watching, as she's in one or two excellent scenes of parties put on and attended by the crowd she would like to join, though there are some telling moments on the field and in the locker room, especially when a veteran lineman gets cut from the team and has limited future prospects. The film does well in portraying the lives and limited careers of pro football players, maybe better than later films have done. The nuances are brought to life by the great director Jacques Tourneur
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