Jeff Chandler

Evelyn Keyes

Stephen McNally

Rock Hudson

Joyce Holden

Jim Backus

James Arness

Steve Martin

George Baxter

George Adrian

Al Bain

Sam Balter

Eleanor Bassett

Brandon Beach

Arthur Berkeley

George Berkeley

Larry J. Blake

John Call

Sherry Moreland

Phil Bloom

Willie Bloom

Harold Bostwick

George Brand

Chet Brandenburg

Ralph Brooks

Boyd Cabeen

Mushy Callahan

Johnny Carpenter

Douglas Carter

Larry Chance

Martin Cichy

Michael Cisney

Johnny Clark

Doris Cole

Tom Coleman

Bing Conley

Henry Corden

Harry Cording

Paul Cristo

Michael Dale

Jack Daly

Mike Donovan

Art Dupuis

Walter 'Whitey' Ekwart

Bob Evans

Harry Evans

Tom Ferrandini

Sam Finn

Wesley Gale

Kay Garrett

Rudy Germane

Joe Gray

Raymond Gray

Stuart Hall

Joy Hallward

Emil Hanna

Sam Harris

Al Haskell

Tommy Herman

Bill Hickman

George Hoagland

Shep Houghton

John Indrisano

Pál Jávor

Johnny Kern

Donald Kerr

George Khoury

Barbara Knudson

Verna Kornman

Ethan Laidlaw

Mike Lally

Louise Lane

Jimmy Lennon Sr.

Peggy Leon

Elmo Lincoln

George Magrill

William Marks

Frank Marlowe

Alan Marston

Thomas Martin

John Maxwell

Larry McGrath

John McKee

Joe McTurk

Howard M. Mitchell

Frank Moran

John Nikcovich

Anton Northpole

William H. O'Brien

Kenneth Patterson

Pepito Pérez

Jack Perrin

Jack Perry

Foster H. Phinney

Mike Portanova

Paul Power

Al Rhein

Felice Richmond

Bruce Riley

Cyril Ring

Joseph Pevney

W.R. Burnett

Aaron Rosenberg

Carl E. Guthrie

Russell F. Schoengarth

John W. Rogers

George Zuckerman

Borden Chase

Bernard Herzbrun

Robert Boyle

Russell A. Gausman

John P. Austin

Bill Thomas

Leslie I. Carey

Joe Lapis

Joseph Gershenson

David S. Horsley

Joan St. Oegger

Bud Westmore

Frankie Van

Daniele Amfitheatrof

Elizabeth Firestone

Miklós Rózsa

Hans J. Salter

Frank Skinner

Tom Hennesy

John Sherwood

Milton Rosen

Drama

Iron Man

Universal International Pictures

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Now I did struggle with the idea of Jeff Chandler as a red-misted boxing champion, but here he acquits him self adequately enough. He's coal miner "Coke" who dreams of wedding his girl "Rose" (Evelyn Keyes) and buying a radio store. His rather more venal brother "George" (Stephen McNally) runs a pool hall and discovers that when his sibling gets cross, really cross, his fists can do his talking for him. The ring beckons, and success follows - but at a price. "Coke" is a brute. He fights legal, but dirty - and the crowd gradually learn to loathe him. Finally he has had enough and wants to stop, but discovers that his now wife is embroiled in some match-fixing with "George" and he faces quite a dilemma - one epitomised at the denouement with a bout with the equally unlikely pugilist Rock Hudson ("Speed"). It's another of the stories set in an industrial town where opportunities were scant and where boxing was a route out if you were prepared to take and give a beating. This one tries to introduce the concept of a conscience in the lead character and the photography does give some sort of indication as to the brutality in the ring. It's a solid film that has just about enough action and a message to convey about right (hooks) and wrong.

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