Sunday, November 11, 2012

Paradise Alley (1978)

 
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 tho wart a sleazy manager.
 
Quite well produced period drama, but with a meandering and silly plot.
 
Halliwell (no stars): "Fashionable update of the City for Conquest school, not in itself very interesting despite amusing bits."

Maltin *1/2: "Some nice moments lost in comic-book-level dramatics. Director Stallone clearly admires his star (he also croons the title song!)."


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