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Tony Curtis played a deaf mute twice and a boxer twice. The advantage of him playing a boxer, of course, is that he can go shirtless much of the time.In The Square Jungle - that being the boxing ring - he's at it again as Eddie Quaid, an amateur fighter with great potential to go pro. He works in a grocery store, and is told by his girlfriend Julie's (Patricia Crowley) father that he's a loser and will never amount to anything. That's it for him and Julie.When he gets the opportunity to go pro, he makes his alcoholic father (Jim Backus) promise to lay off the booze. He begins working with a trainer (Ernest Borgnine). He wins the world championship against Gorski (John Daheim).Eddie loses the next fight to Gorski and blames the ref (John Marley) for stopping the fight due to Eddie being one punch short of being pummeled. He asks the ref to "think twice" before stopping another fight.On his next fight with Gorski, the ref thinks twice, and Eddie nearly kills Gorski. Gorski lives but his fighting days are over. It nearly destroys Eddie.Good movie, with Curtis doing an excellent job in a dramatic role. I actually worked for Tony. He was a great guy, very charming, funny, and hard-working.The film shows the dark side of boxing, certainly not in the way Requiem for a Heavyweight does, but the message is clear.The gorgeous Leigh Snowden plays a girlfriend of Eddie's before Julie is back in the picture. She was hired by Universal as a Monroe type, and there is a resemblance. Few women can say they walked across a stage while entertaining the troops and won a seven-year contract as a result!A very touching ending, with an appearance by Joe Louis.

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Reviewed by blanche-2 7 / 10

It's a jungle out there

Reviewed by planktonrules 6 / 10

Eddie, you should have listened to your trainer.

Although I am not a huge fan of boxing films, I was excited to see this one simply because of the decision to cast Tony Curtis in the lead. While he was a very good actor, he seemed too pretty and delicate for such a role. Was I wrong? Could he pull this off effectively?Eddie (Curtis) is a working guy whose life is far from perfect. His father is a drunk and Eddie keeps making excuses for his old man and is quite the enabler. When Dad (Jim Backus) is locked up for being drunk and disorderly, Eddie even goes so far as to take up boxing to pay for his father's bail!When Eddie has his first match, he's very rough but somehow manages to win. When a respected trainer watches him in action, he (Ernest Borgnine) agrees to train him...and after a montage sequence, he's a middle weight champion. What he does AFTER this is what makes up the bulk of the movie...when he just about kills a man in the ring...and he cannot handle that.Like nearly all boxing films, the boxers throw way too many punches and show little defense. If sights really went that way, they'd seldom go beyond the first round! But, like other boxing films it is still quite entertaining...though the fans' reaction to the big fight at the end seemed ludicrous. It's blood they want...and it's blood they got!So is the film good? Yes, in some ways. It's a nice indictment of the brutality of the sport. But on the other, I had a hard time accepting Curtis as a hard-as-nails boxer. He just looked too pretty and too frail. With a different actor, it probably could have been better. Curtis, by the way, was a fine actor...just not in this role.

The Square Jungle

1955

Drama / Film-Noir / Sport

The Square Jungle

1955

Drama / Film-Noir / Sport

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It's a jungle out there

Eddie, you should have listened to your trainer.

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