Movie
Paradise Alley
Overview
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, 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.
Details
- Release date
- 1978-09-22
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Force Ten Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Sylvester Stallone as Cosmo Carboni
- Lee Canalito as Victor Carboni
- Armand Assante as Lenny Carboni
- Frank McRae as Big Glory
- Anne Archer as Annie
- Kevin Conway as Stitch
- Terry Funk as Frankie the Thumper
- Joyce Ingalls as Bunchie
- Joe Spinell as Burp
- Aimée Eccles as Susan Chow
- Tom Waits as Mumbles
- Chick Casey as Doorman
Crew
- Sylvester Stallone - Director
- Sylvester Stallone - Writer
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