What Makes Sammy Run?Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times—from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York’s East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic—his congenital incapacity for friendship.An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick’s real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.

Including stories from Schulberg''s early work at Dartmouth in the ''30s to his more recent pieces, here is a haunting collection of short stories that largely deal with two of Schulberg''s best-known themes: underdogs and Hollywood.

The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulouslysuccessful writer during the 1920s—a golden figure in a golden age—who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment. Based in part on a real-life and ill-fated writing assignment between the author and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1939, The Disenchanted stands as one of the most compelling evocations of generational disillusion and fallen American stardom.

The Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and "how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today" (Kirkus Reviews). When Seymour Wilson "Budd" Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood''s filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this iconic memoir, Schulberg, the son of one of Tinseltown''s most influential producers, recounts the rise of the studios, the machinations of the studio heads, and the lives of some of cinema''s earliest and greatest stars. Even as Hollywood grew to become one of the country''s most powerful cultural and economic engines, it retained the feel of a company town for decades. Schulberg''s sparkling recollections offer a unique insider view of both the glitter and dark side of the dream factory''s early years. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg''s acclaimed and bestselling novel, based on a classic of American cinemaIn 1955, Budd Schulberg adapted his Academy Award–winning screenplay into an exhilarating novel. Suspenseful and emotional, the novel presents a more complex—and perhaps bleaker—portrait of ex-boxer Terry Malloy''s corrupt and stunted world on the docks of Hoboken. Narrated by Father Pete Barry, the novel shifts focus to the courageous priest who stands up to the Mob, as well as his own church, in order to redeem the souls of his hardscrabble and unloved constituents. On the Waterfront is a potent retelling of an iconic American story that stands apart as an unforgettable vision of crime, politics, and class in the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg''s Academy Award–winning screenplay about ex-boxer and dock worker Terry Malloy, whose talent made him a contender and whose courage will make him a heroThe film On the Waterfront garnered eight Oscars; the leading role of Terry Malloy was perhaps Marlon Brando''s tour de force. But none of these achievements would have been possible without the explosive, inspired script written by Budd Schulberg. The story of stevedores sweating and dying for a corrupt, Mob-run union, and one former boxer''s quixotic fight for dignity, stands among the most iconic narratives of American cinema. Deeply influenced by Schulberg''s own reporting on New York and New Jersey crime families, unions, and the boxing world, as well as on earlier reporting by Malcolm Johnson, this screenplay represents a singular confluence of American artistry and political history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Budd Schulberg''s Academy Award–winning screenplay, updated as a stage drama for modern audiencesFirst performed in 1988 and again on Broadway in 1995, Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman''s stage version of On the Waterfront may represent the purest incarnation of his classic story. Produced forty years after the movie swept the Academy Awards, the subtly modernized stage play was a call to arms for a new generation. With this rendition, Schulberg and Silverman hoped to reach young people who seemed detached from the dehumanizing effects of poverty and the exploitation of society''s most vulnerable. Set in the 1950s and featuring original protagonists Terry Malloy and Father Pete Barry, On the Waterfront continues to stand as a masterful and uniquely American tragedy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Twenty gritty stories by the Academy Award–winning writer of On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd.Despite growing up among Hollywood''s most powerful producers and movie stars in the 1920s and ''30s, Budd Schulberg was always a populist at heart. In this collection of his best short fiction, Schulberg takes readers from the halls of privilege in Los Angeles to smoky dives and dockyard slums in New York. His eye for detail and nose for trouble render characters as vividly as a Weegee photograph. These stories also represent the great clash of people and ideas in mid-century America. The collection includes "The Arkansas Traveler," the story Schulberg adapted into the influential, prescient film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

"The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption." (USA Today). "Toro" Molina certainly looks the part. He''s built like the Minotaur, but few would guess at the fear consuming the Argentine farmer and former circus performer after he''s brought to the United States to be the next heavyweight champion of the world. The problem is that Molina can''t box at all. But monstrous fight promoter Nick Latka fixes every fight on the way to the championship, and builds Toro''s renown with the help of cynical sports journalist Ed Lewis and a host of lackeys. First published in 1947, The Harder They Fall stands as a powerful exposé of professional boxing by one of the sport''s true poet laureates. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Stories of twentieth-century American literary giants, by the man who was their friend, peer, and confidantWhen he was introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a potential partner on a screenplay, novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg was surprised the author was still alive. In Schulberg''s view, the pressures of success and the public''s merciless judgment had destroyed Fitzgerald''s talent early in his career—a situation that is arguably typical for many of America''s great literary geniuses. In Writers in America, Schulberg shares memories and insights from his relationships with authors such as Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Nathaneal West, and Sinclair Lewis, as well as brilliant writers who never attained the success and recognition they deserved, such as Thomas Heggen. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg goes toe to toe with his lifelong passion in this collection of his greatest writings on boxing"As much as I love boxing, I hate it." So begins screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Budd Schulberg''s collection of essays on the sweet science of bruising, a sport that fueled his literary ambitions and unsettled his conscience from a young age. He gives riveting accounts of classic bouts, such as Rocky Marciano–Archie Moore, Muhammad Ali–George Foreman, and Marvin Hagler–Thomas Hearns. Yet these essays also offer insight into the sport''s sociological significance from a man who covered its highlights and corruption-marred lowlights for decades. Sparring with Hemingway stands as the unparalleled history of boxing''s place in American culture throughout the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers. Mr. Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."—USA Today "The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself."—Arthur Miller. "Brilliant, witty, and amusing—the best book on fighting that I have read."—Gene Tunney.

Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In his Introduction, Mr. Schulberg writes: "The film's concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to the camera eye, made it esthetically inconvenient, if not impossible, to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective…suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York."

Terry Malloy, the "e;seemingly soulless street survivor,"e; unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg's searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who "e;could'a been a contender."e;

Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg.Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago; draws a revealing portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its golden age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social context of their times; brings followers up to date on the careers of the great names of recent decades - Tyson, Holyfield, de la Hoya, Hopkins, 'Chico' Corrales; and much more.Throughout this book, Schulberg provides the perfect blend of great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights. With prose that sparkles with authority and insight, Ringside is a main event in the world of sports literature.

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. Él y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un día conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atracción que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura católico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tiranía de la mafia. En una fabulosa introducción, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica cómo surgieron tanto esta novela como el guión de la película homónima—dirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brando—a partir de la información recopilada a lo largo de años de investigación en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York."''La ley del silencio'' nació del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx".Gregorio Belinchón, ''El País''"Una trama en la que la tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajísimos fondos".Rodrigo Fresán, ''ABC Cultural''"Magnífica".J.J. Armas Marcelo, ''ABC Cultural''"Un libro redondo".''The New York Times''"Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante".''The New Republic''

Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication more than fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket.A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers.

What Makes Sammy Run?Everyone of us knows someone who runs. He is one of the symp-toms of our times—from the little man who shoves you out of the way on the street to the go-getter who shoves you out of a job in the office to the Fuehrer who shoves you out of the world. And all of us have stopped to wonder, at some time or another, what it is that makes these people tick. What makes them run?This is the question Schulberg has asked himself, and the answer is the first novel written with the indignation that only a young writer with talent and ideals could concentrate into a manuscript. It is the story of Sammy Glick, the man with a positive genius for being a heel, who runs through New York’s East Side, through newspaper ranks and finally through Hollywood, leaving in his wake the wrecked careers of his associates; for this is his tragedy and his chief characteristic—his congenital incapacity for friendship.An older and more experienced novelist might have tempered his story and, in so doing, destroyed one of its outstanding qualities. Compromise would mar the portrait of Sammy Glick. Schulberg has etched it in pure vitriol, and dissected his victim with a precision that is almost frightening.When a fragment of this book appeared as a short story in a national magazine, Schulberg was surprised at the number of letters he received from people convinced they knew Sammy Glick’s real name. But speculation as to his real identity would be utterly fruitless, for Sammy is a composite picture of a loud and spectacular minority bitterly resented by the many decent and sincere artists who are trying honestly to realize the measureless potentialities of motion pictures. To this group belongs Schulberg himself, who has not only worked as a screen writer since his graduation from Dartmouth College in 1936, but has spent his life, literally, in the heart of the motion-picture colony. In the course of finding out what makes Sammy run (an operation in which the reader is spared none of the grue-some details) Schulberg has poured out everything he has felt about that place. The result is a book which the publishers not only believe to be the most honest ever written about Hollywood, but a penetrating study of one kind of twentieth-century success that is peculiar to no single race of people or walk of life.

Including stories from Schulberg''s early work at Dartmouth in the ''30s to his more recent pieces, here is a haunting collection of short stories that largely deal with two of Schulberg''s best-known themes: underdogs and Hollywood.

The Disenchanted tells the tragic story of Manley Halliday, a fabulouslysuccessful writer during the 1920s—a golden figure in a golden age—who by the late 1930s is forgotten by the literary establishment. Based in part on a real-life and ill-fated writing assignment between the author and F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1939, The Disenchanted stands as one of the most compelling evocations of generational disillusion and fallen American stardom.

The Oscar-winning screenwriter of On the Waterfront recounts his life, his career, and "how Hollywood became the dream factory it still is today" (Kirkus Reviews). When Seymour Wilson "Budd" Schulberg moved from New York to Los Angeles as a child, Hollywood''s filmmaking industry was just getting started. To some, the region was still more famous for its citrus farms than its movie studios. In this iconic memoir, Schulberg, the son of one of Tinseltown''s most influential producers, recounts the rise of the studios, the machinations of the studio heads, and the lives of some of cinema''s earliest and greatest stars. Even as Hollywood grew to become one of the country''s most powerful cultural and economic engines, it retained the feel of a company town for decades. Schulberg''s sparkling recollections offer a unique insider view of both the glitter and dark side of the dream factory''s early years. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg''s acclaimed and bestselling novel, based on a classic of American cinemaIn 1955, Budd Schulberg adapted his Academy Award–winning screenplay into an exhilarating novel. Suspenseful and emotional, the novel presents a more complex—and perhaps bleaker—portrait of ex-boxer Terry Malloy''s corrupt and stunted world on the docks of Hoboken. Narrated by Father Pete Barry, the novel shifts focus to the courageous priest who stands up to the Mob, as well as his own church, in order to redeem the souls of his hardscrabble and unloved constituents. On the Waterfront is a potent retelling of an iconic American story that stands apart as an unforgettable vision of crime, politics, and class in the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg''s Academy Award–winning screenplay about ex-boxer and dock worker Terry Malloy, whose talent made him a contender and whose courage will make him a heroThe film On the Waterfront garnered eight Oscars; the leading role of Terry Malloy was perhaps Marlon Brando''s tour de force. But none of these achievements would have been possible without the explosive, inspired script written by Budd Schulberg. The story of stevedores sweating and dying for a corrupt, Mob-run union, and one former boxer''s quixotic fight for dignity, stands among the most iconic narratives of American cinema. Deeply influenced by Schulberg''s own reporting on New York and New Jersey crime families, unions, and the boxing world, as well as on earlier reporting by Malcolm Johnson, this screenplay represents a singular confluence of American artistry and political history. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Budd Schulberg''s Academy Award–winning screenplay, updated as a stage drama for modern audiencesFirst performed in 1988 and again on Broadway in 1995, Budd Schulberg and Stan Silverman''s stage version of On the Waterfront may represent the purest incarnation of his classic story. Produced forty years after the movie swept the Academy Awards, the subtly modernized stage play was a call to arms for a new generation. With this rendition, Schulberg and Silverman hoped to reach young people who seemed detached from the dehumanizing effects of poverty and the exploitation of society''s most vulnerable. Set in the 1950s and featuring original protagonists Terry Malloy and Father Pete Barry, On the Waterfront continues to stand as a masterful and uniquely American tragedy. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Twenty gritty stories by the Academy Award–winning writer of On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd.Despite growing up among Hollywood''s most powerful producers and movie stars in the 1920s and ''30s, Budd Schulberg was always a populist at heart. In this collection of his best short fiction, Schulberg takes readers from the halls of privilege in Los Angeles to smoky dives and dockyard slums in New York. His eye for detail and nose for trouble render characters as vividly as a Weegee photograph. These stories also represent the great clash of people and ideas in mid-century America. The collection includes "The Arkansas Traveler," the story Schulberg adapted into the influential, prescient film A Face in the Crowd starring Andy Griffith. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

"The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption." (USA Today). "Toro" Molina certainly looks the part. He''s built like the Minotaur, but few would guess at the fear consuming the Argentine farmer and former circus performer after he''s brought to the United States to be the next heavyweight champion of the world. The problem is that Molina can''t box at all. But monstrous fight promoter Nick Latka fixes every fight on the way to the championship, and builds Toro''s renown with the help of cynical sports journalist Ed Lewis and a host of lackeys. First published in 1947, The Harder They Fall stands as a powerful exposé of professional boxing by one of the sport''s true poet laureates. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Stories of twentieth-century American literary giants, by the man who was their friend, peer, and confidantWhen he was introduced to F. Scott Fitzgerald as a potential partner on a screenplay, novelist and scriptwriter Budd Schulberg was surprised the author was still alive. In Schulberg''s view, the pressures of success and the public''s merciless judgment had destroyed Fitzgerald''s talent early in his career—a situation that is arguably typical for many of America''s great literary geniuses. In Writers in America, Schulberg shares memories and insights from his relationships with authors such as Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, Nathaneal West, and Sinclair Lewis, as well as brilliant writers who never attained the success and recognition they deserved, such as Thomas Heggen. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Schulberg goes toe to toe with his lifelong passion in this collection of his greatest writings on boxing"As much as I love boxing, I hate it." So begins screenwriter, novelist, and journalist Budd Schulberg''s collection of essays on the sweet science of bruising, a sport that fueled his literary ambitions and unsettled his conscience from a young age. He gives riveting accounts of classic bouts, such as Rocky Marciano–Archie Moore, Muhammad Ali–George Foreman, and Marvin Hagler–Thomas Hearns. Yet these essays also offer insight into the sport''s sociological significance from a man who covered its highlights and corruption-marred lowlights for decades. Sparring with Hemingway stands as the unparalleled history of boxing''s place in American culture throughout the twentieth century. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Budd Schulberg including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author''s estate.

Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication almost fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket. A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers. Mr. Schulberg creates a wonderfully authentic atmosphere for this book that many critics hailed as even better than What Makes Sammy Run? "The quintessential novel of boxing and corruption."—USA Today "The book will stand not only as the novel about boxing but also as a book that indirectly tells more about civilization than do most books about civilization itself."—Arthur Miller. "Brilliant, witty, and amusing—the best book on fighting that I have read."—Gene Tunney.

Building on his Academy Award-winning screenplay of the classic film, Budd Schulberg's On the Waterfront is the story of ex-prizefighter Terry Malloy's valiant stand against corruption on the New Jersey docks. It generates all the power, grittiness, and truth of that great production, but goes beyond it in set and setting. It is a novel of strength and fallibility, of hope and defeat, of love and betrayal. In his Introduction, Mr. Schulberg writes: "The film's concentration on a single dominating character, brought close to the camera eye, made it esthetically inconvenient, if not impossible, to set Terry's story in its social and historical perspective…suggesting the knotted complexities of the world of the waterfront that loops around New York."

Terry Malloy, the "e;seemingly soulless street survivor,"e; unwittingly lures a rebellious longshoreman to his death in Budd Schulberg's searing drama about the New York waterfront, the racketeering unions controlling it, and the kid who "e;could'a been a contender."e;

Ringside is a bountiful collection of the most memorable boxing stories by legendary fight-game writer Budd Schulberg.Schulberg takes us all the way back to an epic bare-knuckle contest in England 200 years ago; draws a revealing portrait of 'Uncle' Mike Jacobs, the promotional impresario of boxing in its golden age; expertly places Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali in the social context of their times; brings followers up to date on the careers of the great names of recent decades - Tyson, Holyfield, de la Hoya, Hopkins, 'Chico' Corrales; and much more.Throughout this book, Schulberg provides the perfect blend of great writing on great fighters, laced with a realistic sense of boxing's wrongs as well as its rights. With prose that sparkles with authority and insight, Ringside is a main event in the world of sports literature.

El ex boxeador Terry Malloy y su hermano Charley, un abogado sin escrúpulos conocido como el Caballero, forman parte del duro sindicato de estibadores de Nueva York, conectado con la mafia y dirigido por Johnny Friendly. Él y sus matones controlan los muelles con mano de hierro; para seguir vivo hay que hacer las cosas a su manera y volverse sordo y mudo. Terry, de pocas luces e iletrado, lleva a cabo cualquier trabajo que le pidan. Hasta que un día conoce a Katie, cuyo hermano ha sido asesinado por infringir la ley del silencio. Entre ellos surge una atracción que despierta la adormilada conciencia de Terry, quien, ante las exhortaciones del padre Barry, un idealista cura católico, decide dar un paso al frente para derrocar la tiranía de la mafia. En una fabulosa introducción, el propio Budd Schulberg nos explica cómo surgieron tanto esta novela como el guión de la película homónima—dirigida por Elia Kazan y protagonizada por Marlon Brando—a partir de la información recopilada a lo largo de años de investigación en la ribera portuaria de Nueva York."''La ley del silencio'' nació del talento de Budd Schulberg, un escritor con una vida apasionante, un hombre cuya carrera es fiel reflejo de todos los vaivenes del siglo xx".Gregorio Belinchón, ''El País''"Una trama en la que la tragedia griega y el drama shakespeareano descienden a los bajísimos fondos".Rodrigo Fresán, ''ABC Cultural''"Magnífica".J.J. Armas Marcelo, ''ABC Cultural''"Un libro redondo".''The New York Times''"Emocionante, conmovedor, fascinante".''The New Republic''

Budd Schulberg's celebrated novel of the prize ring has lost none of its power since its first publication more than fifty years ago. Crowded with unforgettable characters, it is a relentless expose of the fight racket.A modern Samson in the form of a simple Argentine peasant is ballyhooed by an unscrupulous fight promoter and his press agent and then betrayed and destroyed by connivers.