"The Harder They Fall" is a 1956 film noir directed by Mark Robson, featuring Humphrey Bogart in his last film. It was written by Philip Yordan and based on the 1947 novel of the same name by Budd Schulberg. Bogart plays a sportswriter who falls on hard times when the newspaper he works for goes out of business. He is hired to publicize a new boxer named Toro Moreno.

Unbeknownst to Toro and his friend and manager Luís Agrandi, all of his fights had been fixed. After a short time, Benko gets Toro into a match against Gus Dundee, the ex-heavyweight champ, before the title fight against Buddy Brannen. Dundee has agreed to lose the fight, as he is suffering headaches and neck pain from his last fight against Brannen. Dundee ends up collapsing in the ring and later dies of a brain hemorrhage in the hospital.

The film was Bogart's last; he died early in 1957. In late 1955, during filming, he was already seriously ill with what would soon be diagnosed as esophageal cancer. Occasionally inaudible in some takes, some of his lines are reported to have been dubbed in post-production by Paul Frees, who also appears in the film as a priest.

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