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Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) | User Rating
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MPAA Rating
NR
Running Time
1 hour, 54 minutes
Country USA
Studio MGM
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Other Titles
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• Handvoll Dreck, Eine (1956)
• Die Hölle ist in mir (1956)
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Genre: Drama, Sports, Biography, Prison, True Story, Suspense, Thieves
Tagline: A Girl Can Lift A Fellow To The Skies!
Plot: This adaptation of boxer Rocky Graziano's autobiography chronicles the middleweight champion’s life from his underprivileged, extremely difficult childhood through his juvenile delinquency and his ultimate climb to the top of his profession, achieved with courage and dignity. Paul Newman made his mark with this film, uncannily portraying Graziano. Having grown up under the psychological and physical abuse of his father (Harold J. Stone)--whose own dreams of becoming a champion boxer were drowned in alcohol--Rocky finds himself going from reform school to the army to prison, where he meets Johnny Hyland (Judson Pratt), the prison fitness instructor. Hyland sees Rocky’s potential as an athlete and urges him to channel his violent energy in a better direction. Released from prison and still behaving like a thug, the boxer hooks up with small-time manager Irving Cohen (Everett Sloane). It’s when Rocky meets Norma (Pier Angeli) that things finally begin to change for him. The scenes of Rocky’s early life are filmed with frenetic energy, edited into strong, fast-paced vignettes with excellent dialogue, a style director Robert Wise repeated two years later with the biographical I WANT TO LIVE! Look for Steve McQueen making his first film appearance, as Fidel.
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| Directed by |
Robert Wise
The Sound of Music, West Side Story, The Day the Earth Stood Still |
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| Cast |
Paul Newman
Road to Perdition, The Sting, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
 | Pier Angeli
Battle of the Bulge, Sodom and Gomorrah, The Silver Chalice |
 | Sal Mineo
Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Escape from the Planet of the Apes |
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