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The Fighter (1952)iMDB Rating: 6.0
Date Released : 23 May 1952
Genre : Drama
Stars : Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb, Frank Silvera
Movie Quality : BRrip
Format : MKV
Size : 700 MB

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In Mexico, a young boxer uses his winnings to buy guns to avenge his family's murder.

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Review :

Not a knockout...

This isn't so much a boxing movie as a peasant rebelling against a cruel dictatorship movie. Richard Conte (who, at 42, was about 15 years too old for the role of Felipe Rivera) plays the peasant in question who flees to New Mexico to raise funds for the rebellion after his beloved is murdered by troops. The film is a clumsy amalgamation of two stories - Rivera's life as a peasant, and his attempts to raise money to buy guns for the rebellion through boxing - the former of which is sandwiched between the latter as an extended flashback. As always in this type of film all the peasants are decent noble types and all the troops are leering sadists.

Lee J. Cobb plays Durango, the heroic rebel leader and he isn't that great. He was called upon a few times in his career to portray latino types and, with his tendency to exaggerate the accents he was never convincing. In fact the film is fairly ordinary throughout and directed in a workmanlike manner by Herbert Kline (who also wrote), although the fight sequences are fairly good for the time. This is one for Conte completists only.