Watch The Harder They Fall (1956) Free Online

Release Date: 1956

Cast: Edward Andrews, Max Baer, Jr., Humphrey Bogart, Jack Albertson, Rod Steiger, Carlos Montalbán, Jan Sterling, Jersey Joe Walcott

Categories: Movies, Thriller, Crime Fiction, Film à clef, Crime Drama, Black-and-white, Sports, Film noir

The Harder They Fall (1956) is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg. The drama tells a "thinly disguised à clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal", with the challenger based on Carnera and the champ based on Max Baer; previously both Baer and Carnera had starred in the 1933 movie The Prizefighter and the Lady, in which Carnera is the world champ and Baer is his challenger. Bogart's character, Eddie Willis, is based on the career... MORE

The Harder They Fall (1956) is a film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film before his death in 1957. The film was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel by Budd Schulberg. The drama tells a "thinly disguised à clef account of the Primo Carnera boxing scandal", with the challenger based on Carnera and the champ based on Max Baer; previously both Baer and Carnera had starred in the 1933 movie The Prizefighter and the Lady, in which Carnera is the world champ and Baer is his challenger. Bogart's character, Eddie Willis, is based on the career of boxing writer and event promoter Harold Conrad. Sportswriter Eddie Willis is broke after the newspaper he works for goes under. He is hired by crooked boxing promoter Nick Benko to publicize his new boxer, a huge, but slow-witted and untalented Argentinian named Toro Moreno. Unbeknownst to Toro and his friend and manager Luís Agrandi, all of his fights are fixed to make the public believe that he is for real. Eddie begins to feel guilty about his work, especially after he comes to like the good-natured giant. The unhappy boxer wants to quit and go home, but Eddie talks him out of it. Finally LESS