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Director: Sylvester Stallone
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From Time Out Film Guide
Nominally set in 1946, in the poverty-trap of Hell's Kitchen, but pitched waveringly between Rocky, Guys and Dolls, and some prototype Warner Brothers Depression drama of the preceding decade, Stallone's hit-and-miss directorial debut (he also writes, stars and sings the theme song) maps the classic escape route via the ring (wrestling this time) with a unique style of baroque excess. The plot (Stallone scheming himself and his two brothers uptown on the tails of ambitious gimmickry) is shot full of sentimental holes; but the creation of a floridly fantasticated netherworld of low-life high-rollers and their inevitably multi-coloured circumlocutions is irresistible.Author: PT
Cast & crew
Director: Sylvester Stallone
Producer: John Faunce Roach, Ronald A Suppa
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Frank McRae, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Aimée Eccles, Tom Waits full cast
Duration: 109 mins
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