I was sure when I was watching this that the original story or script was alot more detailed. Maybe it was cut down for time. Farnsworth's wife and personal secretary as supposed to be having an affair but they have no connection in any scene. She seems to have no problem with Farnsworth seeing Miss Logan although she's supposedly married. The entire plot revolving "her father"s" stock was just stuck in to get her on the scene. You can't really understand why he's in jail and what the fraud was. The boxer's attraction to Miss Logan (did she have a first name) seems to be just on her looks. They don't talk enough to have a believeable relationship. Finally, Murdoch's body is taken over and now it lives. So where did Murdoch go? Not dead on the floor of the ring. And how could he box with a gun wound in him that no one notices? The movie had some good ideas but plot-wise it seems we were short shrifted. Although I usually like Claude Rains, in this movie he was giving us lessons in under-acting. Maybe Beatty had a good idea to try and remake it.
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