The Harder They Fall (Columbia). When Budd Schulberg wrote the novel from which this picture is drawn, he hoped it might prove to be a sort of Uncle Tom's Cabin of the fight racket, a body blow to one of the least savory survivals of slavery in U.S. society: the tradition of the chattel athlete. Author Schulberg hit hard, but he was striking at bulletproof-vested interests, and in the nine years since he made his attack, these interests (on evidence adduced in recent investigations) seem to have grown even stronger. This picture will not...
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