Country: USA
Year: 1956
Duration: 113'
Thomas Rocco Barbella is not a boxer but an angry and desperate young thug who needs money. One day, he enters a gym whose sign reads “The best boxers in the world train here” and he calls himself Rocky Graziano; he starts to fight and knocks out a light heavyweight boxer. This was the beginning of an unstoppable career that led to him becoming world champion. At his third film, Newman finally finds consecration, after having studied the real Rocky Graziano up close and under the guidance of the expert Wise, who had already dealt with the world of boxing in The Set-Up. Two Oscars: Best Cinematography and Best Art Direction.
Biography
film director
Robert Wise
(Winchester, USA, 1914 – Los Angeles, USA 2005) was an American film director, editor, and producer, one of the most important in Hollywood in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Winner of four Oscars for the musicals West Side Story and The Sound of Music, he established himself as a versatile director capable of moving with ease from noir (The Set-Up) to science fiction (The Day the Earth Stood Still, Star Trek), from social and personal drama (Somebody Up There Likes Me) to horror (The Body Snatcher, The Blob), westerns (Blood on the Moon) and war films (The Sand Pebbles). From 1971 to 1975, he was president of the Directors Guild of America and from 1985 to 1988 of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Curse of the Cat People (Il giardino delle streghe, 1944), Mademoiselle Fifi (1944), The Body Snatcher (La jena, 1945), A Game of Death (1945), Criminal Court (1946), Born to Kill (Perfido inganno, 1947), Mystery in Mexico (La collana insanguinata, 1948), Blood on the Moon (Sangue sulla luna, 1948), The Set-Up (Stasera ho vinto anch’io, 1949), Three Secrets (Tre segreti, 1950), Two Flags West (Due bandiere all’ovest, 1950), The House on Telegraph Hill (Ho paura di lui, 1951), The Day the Earth Stood Still (Ultimatum alla Terra, 1951), The Captive City (La città prigioniera, 1952), Something for the Birds (1952), Destination Gobi (Destinazione Mongolia, 1953), The Desert Rats (I topi del deserto, 1953), So Big (Solo per te ho vissuto, 1953), Executive Suite (La sete del potere, 1954), Helen of Troy (Elena di Troia, 1956), Tribute to a Bad Man (La legge del capestro, 1956), Somebody Up There Likes Me (Lassù qualcuno mi ama, 1956), This Could Be the Night (Questa notte o mai, 1957), Until They Sail (Quattro donne aspettano, 1957), Run Silent Run Deep (Mare caldo, 1958), I Want to Live! (Non voglio morire, 1958), Odds Against Tomorrow (Strategia di una rapina, 1959), West Side Story, co-directed with Jerome Robbins (1961), Two for the Seesaw (La ragazza del quartiere, 1962), The Haunting (Gli invasati, 1963), The Sound of Music (Tutti insieme appassionatamente, 1965), The Sand Pebbles (Quelli della San Pablo, 1966), Star! (Un giorno... di prima mattina, 1968), The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, 1971), Two People (1973), The Hindenburg (Hindenburg, 1975), Audrey Rose (1977), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Star Trek, 1979), Rooftops (Combat Dance - A colpi di musica, 1989), A Storm in Summer (A Storm in Summer - Temporale d’estate, tv, 2000).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Robert Wise. STORY: Rowland Barber, Rocky Graziano (from his autobiography). SCREENPLAY: Ernest Lehman. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Joseph Ruttenberg EDITING: Albert Akst. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason. MUSIC: Bronislau Kaper. CAST: Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Sal Mineo, Steve McQueen, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Harold J. Stone, Sammy White, Robert Loggia, Stanley Adams, Joseph Buloff. PRODUCTION: Charles Schnee for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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