Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) Promo

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The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce's impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.

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[pannoni1]

Those on-screen graphics unfortunately take soul out of the past here and I find sacrilegous (only should be put at end of video).

[RJOatmeal]

@frozenfood500 Looks like Newman played the Moriarty role and Albert Salmi as the catcher DeNiro played.

[frozenfood500]

That is not from 1973. The MOVIE came out in '73, starring Michael Moriarty and Robert DeNiro. That was a television promo for the television play from the 1950s, which starred Paul Newman. I'm not sure who played the role that DeNiro played in the '73 movie version. And both the movie and the teleplay were based on Mark Harris' novel of the same name, which was published in the early '50s.

[Juliaflo]

In my opinion, a remake might work only if Mr. DeNiro was involved somehow.

[goback3spaces]

Dialogue that is styled in such a way as to seem unstyled.

[7beers]

So what is "naturalistic"?

[goback3spaces]

It's fake self-conscious sentimental gutter talk, the kind that never occurred on any street corner but occurs with alarming regularity on the stage. My dislike of it is on aesthetic grounds.

[7beers]

What do you mean?

[goback3spaces]

This naturalistic monologue makes my skin crawl.

[frezzoni]

alexanderamone: I got it in VHS in italian, one of the best movies ever!