Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) - Theatrical Trailer - © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

Film: Somebody Up There Likes Me.


Starring: Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano, Pier Angeli as Norma Graziano and Everett Sloane.


Directed by: Robert Wise.


Story written by: Rocky Graziano "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (autobiography)


Screenplay & Dialogues written by: Ernest Lehman.


Distributed by: © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.


Theatrical Release Date: July 3, 1956 (USA)


Niceties by: http://www.youtube.com/IAmOnlyLove



Synopsis!
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" is a 1956 drama film based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. Joseph Ruttenberg was awarded a 1956 Oscar in the category of Best Cinematography (Black and White). The film also won the Oscar for Best Art Direction (Cedric Gibbons, Malcolm F. Brown, Edwin B. Willis, F. Keogh Gleason)

The film was directed by Robert Wise who also edited Citizen Kane (1941), and later directed West Side Story (1961), The Sound of Music (1965), and The Sand Pebbles (1966).

Plot!
Rocky Graziano has a difficult childhood and is beaten by his father. He joins a street gang, and undergoes a long history of criminal activities. He is sent to prison, where he is rebellious to all authority figures. After his release, he is drafted by the U.S. Army, but runs away. Needing money, he becomes a boxer, and finds that he has natural talent and wins six fights in a row before the army finds him and dishonorably discharges him. He serves a year in a United States Disciplinary Barracks, and resumes his career as a boxer as a result. While working his way to the title, he is introduced to his sister's friend Norma, whom he falls in love with and later marries. Starting a new, clean life, he rises to the top, but loses a title fight with Tony Zale. A person he knew in prison finds him and blackmails him into throwing a fight. Rocky fakes an injury and avoids the fight altogether. When he is interrogated by the district attorney, he refuses to name the blackmailer and has his license suspended. His manager gets him a fight in Chicago to fight Zale the middleweight champion, once more. Rocky wins the fight.

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[RosaFayGoodchild]

(Haven't seen this yet but definitely will) The part seems to have been made for Dean - it even has Pier Angeli! - but it definitely looks like Newman did a good job.

[contradictionss]

this role was meant to be played by james dean, and i can see him pulling this off beautifully with his acting style, but HELL paul newman is wonderful!

[theachtungtree]

@neversayyourname oh...ok....both are fine enough...though raging bull is a single movie without sequels

[booker80]

@PhillyDippy5 he was 31

[theachtungtree]

@omegamann71 Raging bull...best boxing movie...EVER

[PhillyDippy5]

Wow, Paul Newman was very young

[omegamann71]

Many thanks for posting ! Along with " Body and Soul " with John Garfield my favourite boxer movie - by the way , I'm German and Paul Newman was dubbed by Wolfgang Kieling , who was brutally killed by Newman in Hitchcock's " Torn Curtain "