this have be my favorite movie ever since i saw it in the late 1940 . a a boxing movie it stand on top alongside champion and the harder they fall and rocky and rag bull . everything in this film work . garfield acting ( he should have win the oscar ) be superb . the support cast and ann revere and lloyd gough and joseph pevney and canada lee all do a wonderful job . the dialogue be terrific . i have never forget the scene when mary currier ( the welfare worker ) come to the house to interview ann revere and garfield throw her out and and garfield and revere have word and she tell him good you should buy a gun then become a fighter and he say to her and you need money to buy a gun . just about every scene work in this movie . the flashback and the incidental music and the photography and especially the fight scene and do by the incomprable james wong howe . robert rossen direction be right on target and as well a abe polansky screenplay . the black and white filming of the movie only add more to the fight scene and especially the final bout . and while most people would agree it seem to have a happy end and it be possible the end could be somewhat different after the final dialogue between garfield and lloyd gough where garfield say and what be you gon na do and kill me and everybody die . this picture definitely belong on a top ten list or top one hundred list even though you never see it on any list . this movie should be see by every film buff of every age .