The Harder They Fall
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.
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Cast
Humphrey Bogart
Rod Steiger
Jan Sterling
Mike Lane
Max Baer
Jersey Joe Walcott
Edward Andrews
Harold J. Stone
Carlos Montalbán
Nehemiah Persoff
Felice Orlandi
Herbie Faye
Rusty Lane
Jack Albertson
Paul Frees
William Henry
Frank McLure
William H. O'Brien
Bert Stevens
Arthur Tovey
Brandon Beach
Joanne Arnold
Val Avery
Al Baffert
Bill Baldwin
Walter Baldwin
Emily Belser
Julie Benedic
Phil Berger
Eve Bernhardt
Tony Blankley
Penny Carpenter
Marian Carr
Steve Carruthers
Tina Carver
Edwin Chandler
Winnie Chandler
George Chester
George Cisar
Pat Comiskey
Lillian Culver
Jack Daly
Patricia Dane
Vinnie De Carlo
Elaine Edwards
Matty Fain
Adolph Faylauer
Abel Fernandez
Gil Frye
Robert Fuller
Ralph Gamble
Tommy Garland
Eddie Garr
Charlie Gibbs
Everett Glass
Bennie Goldberg
Mickey Golden
Dorothy Gordon
Michael Granger
Joe Greb
Frank Hagney
Stuart Hall
Tommy Herman
Joe Herrera
Vic Holbrook
Tex Holden
Bob Hopkins
Charles Horvath
Roy Jenson
Don Kelly
Kenner G. Kemp
Don Kohler
Joseph La Cava
Pat Lawler
Peter Leeds
Larry Leverett
Harry Lewis
Mark Lowell
William Marks
Mathew McCue
Joseph Mell
Mort Mills
Frank Mitchell
Irving Mitchell
Diana Mumby
Sol Murgi
Matt Murphy
Richard Norris
Jimmy O'Gatty
Ted Pavelec
Murray Pollack
Fred Rapport
Stafford Repp
Alan Reynolds
Eli Rill
Joanne Rio
Robert Robinson
William Roerick
Jack Roper
Wally Rose
Abe Roth
Sandy Sanders
Cosmo Sardo
Fred Scheiwiller
Mark Scott
Carl Sklover
Gene Smith
J. Lewis Smith
Angela Stevens
Hal Taggart
Charles Tannen
Ferris Taylor
Pat Valentino
Bennie Washington
Russ Whiteman
Bob Whitney
Ulysses Williams
James Wilson
Sam Harris
Dennis Moore
