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Hal March, a popular 1950s stage, film and TV personality, is seen here, as a mob enforcer meeting out punishment against Midge Kelly (Kirk Douglas) for Kelly's failure to throw a fight. March would later be implicated in a real life fix, as he was host of the popular but ill fated TV quiz show The $64,000 Question (1955). This quiz show was cited in the 1950s "Quiz Show Scandal," where some former contestants testified under oath that they were given information pertaining to the questions that they may be asked, in advance of their appearances on the show.

Midge mangles the sculpture that Palmer has made of him, twisting the head out of alignment. In next shot, the head of statue is back in its original location.

The opening credits appear over clips of a crowd at one of Kelly's prize fights.

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Featured in Dick Cavett Show: Kirk Douglas (1971)