Paradise Alley (1978)

Paradise Alley (1978) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1978 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Sylvester Stallone

Written By:
Sylvester Stallone

Actors:
Sylvester Stallone ..... Cosmo Carboni
Lee Canalito ..... Victor Carboni
Armand Assante ..... Lenny Carboni
Frank McRae ..... Big Glory
Anne Archer ..... Annie
Kevin Conway ..... Stitch
Terry Funk ..... Frankie the Thumper
Joyce Ingalls ..... Bunchie
Joe Spinell ..... Burp
Aimée Eccles ..... Susan Chow
Tom Waits ..... Mumbles
Chick Casey ..... Doorman
James J. Casino ..... Paradise Bartender
Fredi O. Gordon ..... Paradise Alley Hooker
Lydia Goya ..... Bar Room Hooker #1

Synopsis:

Cosmo Carboni (Sylvester Stallone) and his brothers Lenny (Armand Assanted) and Victor (Lee Canalito) live and work in a poor section of New York City known as "Hell's Kitchen" in the 1940s. Cosmo, particularly, sees that they need to get out of this depressing situation. When he sees an illegal wrestling match, he realizes that his younger brother Victor could have beat the champion handily -- and that a lot of money is being passed around. With some effort he persuades the kind-hearted boy to compete. Lenny, too, comes along for the ride: managing a wrestler is a lot more interesting than his old job at a funeral parlor. Pressure builds and the stakes grow higher, until a local mobster puts "Frankie the Thumper" into the ring, and Victor must fight for his life. This film marks Stallone's directorial debut: he also wrote the screenplay, starred, wrote a novel based on the film, and sings the title song.

It's 1946 in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. Cosmo Carboni, the eldest of the three Carboni brothers, is lamenting what he sees as them not living up to their potential. Big talking Cosmo hustles and panhandles for money. Brooding Lenny Carboni, an injured veteran whose sullen attitude stems from his time in the war, is an undertaker. And youngest Victor Carboni, the simple muscle-man who wouldn't hurt a fly unless he's annoyed, is an iceman. Victor looks to Lenny and his Chinese-American girlfriend Susan Chow as his voices of reason. After Victor holds his own against wrestler Frankie the Thumper in an arm wrestling match, Frankie who is seen as the strongest man in the neighborhood, and after seeing the lucrative wrestling matches - which are more like street fights without rules - at the underground nightclub called Paradise Alley, Cosmo gets it into his head that wrestling may be Victor's calling and a way for them all to get out of Hell's Kitchen for good. The brothers would act as trainer and manager. Lenny, doing it only to ensure Victor's safety, and Victor, who is rechristened "Kid Salami", ultimately agree. But instead of bonding the brothers closer together, the wrestling life and their relationship to a taxi dancer named Annie threatens to tear them apart as their priorities start to diverge. And a wrestling match with Frankie, who, with his sadistic manager, Stitch Malone, treats it as a grudge match, may threaten Victor's life altogether.

Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.

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