The Set-Up
Adapted by Ian Allen
From the poem by Joseph Moncure March
85 mins | 5-8 M | unproduced
Pansy had the stuff, but his skin was brown
And he never got a chance, at the middleweight crown.
An aging boxer seeks redemption in this parable on white supremacy, written during American boxing’s shameful period between champs Jack Johnson and Joe Lewis, when no black boxer was given a title shot for more than a decade.
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