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Director:
Writers:
Ernest Lehman (screenplay)
Rocky Graziano (autobiography) ...
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Release Date:
12 December 1956 (Japan) more
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A Girl Can Lift A Fellow To The Skies! more
Plot:
Rocky Graziano is building a career in crime, when he's finally caught and arrested. In jail, he is undisciplined... more | add synopsis
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Won 2 Oscars. Another 1 win & 3 nominations more
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Exclusive: Ray Romano's Men of a Certain Age Casts Robert Loggia
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McQueen Biopic Planned
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Cast

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Paul Newman ... Rocky
Pier Angeli ... Norma
Everett Sloane ... Irving Cohen

Eileen Heckart ... Ma Barbella

Sal Mineo ... Romolo

Harold J. Stone ... Nick Barbella
Joseph Buloff ... Benny
Sammy White ... Whitey Bimstein

Arch Johnson ... Heldon
Robert P. Lieb ... District Attorney Hogan (as Robert Lieb)
Theodore Newton ... Athletic Commissioner Edward Eagan
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Runtime:
113 min (copyright time)
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Mono (Westrex Recording System) (Perspecta Sound)
Certification:
Spain:7 | Portugal:M/12 | Norway:16 | USA:Approved (certificate #18008) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Sweden:15 | Australia:G | Finland:K-16 | UK:A (original rating) (cut) | UK:PG (video rating) (1994)

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Film debut of Frank Campanella more
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Continuity: During the scene where the manager comes to the house, passing all the news crews, the door of the house has three small windows in descending order. Once inside the house with Rocky's wife the door in the background has an arched window instead of three small windows. more
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Irving Cohen: I never should have left the lingerie business. I was the happiest man in women's underwear. more
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One Of The Great Movies Of The 1950s, 8 September 2006
10/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

This was excellent! I think it is one of the most underrated and under-discussed movies of the 1950s. It was interesting from start-to-finish and had drama, humor, suspense, action, romance.....and it's all true. The story was approved by the man it was about: boxer Rocky Graziano. Thus, you know it's not "based on a true story" in which 90 percent of it turns out to be fiction, just for dramatic purposes. No, this was Graziano's story and Paul Newman - despite not looking Italian - did a superb job playing him. This movie put Newman "on the map" as an actor. He was fascinating in here and dominated most of the scenes.

The film's direction by Robert Wise and the cinematography also took center stage. Apparently, the "powers that be" agreed as this film won an Oscar for its photography.

Newfane's portrayal of the juvenile delinquent-turned-championship boxer may have dominated the story but all the characters left strong impressions, beginning with this parents played by the great character actors Harold Stone and Eileen Heckart . Pier Angeli is well- cast as Graziano's sweetheart-turned wife. Her Italian accent fits in perfectly as does her character as the soft and frail--but tough female complement to Rocky. Too bad we didn't see much of this actress in the USA.

The rest of the supporting cast is top-notch, from Everett Sloane as the fight manager to '50s star/teen idol Sal Mineo as a neighborhood pal to Graziano. Also good was Robert Loggia as the bad- influence hood. This was Loggia's first role on screen. Speaking of first roles, did anyone catch Steve McQueen in here?? I did a double-take when they had a quick gang-fight rumble on top of a roof and there's McQueen! The camera put a closeup shot on him and there was no doubt it was him! He had no lines, unfortunately, but that apparently was his film debut.

This movie is finally going to be released on DVD sometime in November of 2006. I hope more people get the opportunity to discover this fantastic movie which, by the way, reminded me quite a bit of another fantastic film in this era: On The Waterfront.

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