Rent Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
3.6 of 5 from 63 ratings
1h 49min
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- Synopsis:
"World's Leading Boxers Train Here Daily" says a sign outside Stillman's Gym. Thomas Rocco Barbella isn't a boxer. He's just a scrappy, desperate youth who needs dough. So he enters the gym, gives himself the made-up name of Rocky Graziano, sign on to spare for $10...and flattens toplight-heavyweight. The name sticks. So does the impact of this inspiring tale about Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title. In his second film, Paul Newman plays the ring king, preparing for the role in part by meeting with Graziano to study his speech and ways. Robert Wise, who earlier captured the fight game in 'The Set-Up', directs this double Academy Award winner with K.O. force. Unbilled Steve McQueen and Robert Loggia add to the film's many pleasures. Pull up a ringside seat. - Actors:
- Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Sal Mineo, Harold J. Stone, Joseph Buloff, Sammy White, Arch Johnson, Robert P. Lieb, Theodore Newton
- Directors:
- Robert Wise
- Producers:
- Charles Schnee
- Writers:
- Ernest Lehman, Rocky Graziano, Rowland Barber
- Others:
- Cedric Gibbons, Joseph Ruttenberg, Edwin B. Willis, Albert Akst, Malcolm F. Brown, F. Keogh Gleason
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Sports & Sport Films
- Collections:
- Ireland At the Oscars, Oscars: Winners & Losers
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