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Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
- Won 2 Oscars
- 4 wins & 4 nominations total
Robert P. Lieb
- District Attorney Hogan
- (as Robert Lieb)
Caswell Adams
- Sam
- (uncredited)
Stanley Adams
- Romolo's Attorney
- (uncredited)
John Albright
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Fred Aldrich
- Ringside Photographer - Zale Fight
- (uncredited)
Leon Alton
- Military Fight Spectator
- (uncredited)
Don Anderson
- Reporter
- (uncredited)
Harry Arnie
- Spectator
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThe movie was originally to be filmed on location in New York City in Technicolor with James Dean in the lead role. However, after Dean's sudden death and replacement by Paul Newman, it was decided the film should be in black and white, and filmed on studio sets. Director Robert Wise felt the sets looked fake, and only used them for night scenes, while filming the daytime scenes on location.
- GoofsWhen Norma asks Benny for directions how to get home after meeting Rocky in the early 1940s, he tells her to take a Subway route that did not exist until 1954.
- Quotes
Irving Cohen: I never should have left the lingerie business. I was the happiest man in women's underwear.
- Crazy creditsThe film opens with the following on-screen quote before the title and opening credits: This is the way I remember it... _definitely_. -Rocky Graziano.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989)
- SoundtracksSomebody Up There Likes Me
(1956)
Music by Bronislau Kaper
Lyrics By Sammy Cahn
Sung by Perry Como during the opening and closing credits
Featured review
Incomplete biography of Graziano
Probably the director Robert Wise wanted to emphasize more on the behavior of young Graziano, his problems with his father, the time he spent in jail and his misdoing in the army, but some aspects of his final life as a boxer were not shown at all in the film, which ends with the rematch between Graziano and Tony Zale in Chicago in 1947, where Graziano did his best to knock out Zale. With this victory Graziano became world champion, something that did not last for long. Zale and Graziano met once again in 1948, and this time Zale finished his adversary with a knock out in the third round. Graziano wanted to come back in 1952 fighting against the famous Ray "Sugar" Robinson. In that fight, Graziano knocked down Robinson in the third round, but he recovered and finished with Graziano in the same third round. In any case, Graziano was a good boxer, and this bloody -violent sport put his life on the right track. Interesting to note that this was the first film (uncredited) in the career of the actor Steve McQueen. Sal Mineo again acted as a wrong young boy in New York. The actress Pier Angeli did a good work as Graziano's wife.
- esteban1747
- Jan 26, 2005
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- El estigma del arroyo
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- $1,920,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $9,528
- Runtime1 hour 53 minutes
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- 1.85 : 1
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