Ten O'Clock Tiger story
Boxing manager Arthur Duffy is offered a powerful drug by a shady character named Boots Murphy. Boots tells him it is a drug used on race horses to turn losers into winners. Arthur decides to use the drug on one of his washed up fighters named Soldier Fresno. After Soldier is injected with the drug, he starts to win. Arthur and Boots begin to rake in the money. Soon Soldier gets a bout with the champion. Before the fight, however, Boots tells Arthur that he only has two more doses of the drug. Determined to win the fight, Arthur injects Soldier with both doses. Unfortunately the overdose causes Soldier to believe that he is already in the ring. He springs up and starts fighting. He beats Arthur to death. Directed by: Bernard Girard. Story by: William Fay.
8 total · 1 choice · 5 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| performance-enhancing drugs | choice | This is a story about cheating in boxing by shooting the boxer up with chemicals before the match. The boxing manager Arthur Duffy put new life into the over-the-hill boxer Soldier Fresno by injecting him with a powerful experimental concoction before his bouts. |
| agent and client | major | The boxing manager Arthur Duffy started injecting his docile, over-the-hill boxer Soldier Fresno with PEDs, and things were going great until an overdose caused Solder to batter Arthur to death. |
| compromising one's ethical principles for personal advantage | major | Central to this story was the following dilemma, which Boots found troubling but Arthur had little problem getting his head around: should they risk Soldier's life and well being by testing a new drug on him, and then to increase the dose dangerously, in order to profit from the games he'd win? |
| coping with being washed up | major | Soldier Fresno was an unremarkable over-the-hill boxer until he started letting his manager inject him with special "vitamins". |
| greed for riches | major | Arthur stooped to injecting an over-the-hill boxer in his stable with drugs to rake in the money on the boxer fights. |
| the sport of boxing | major | The story is mainly set in a boxing gym and concerns a boxing manager using an injectable performance enhancing drugs to revitalize an over-the-hill boxer's career. |
| brother and brother | minor | In his sketch, Alfred Hitchcock let his mustachioed brother introduce the story, thinking that doing so would score them a booking on a certain Sunday night variety show. |
| law enforcement | minor | The police busted into the dressing room moments after the overdosed on performance enhancing drugs boxer Soldier Fresno had beaten his manager to death. |