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Somebody Up There Likes Me: Directed by Robert Wise. With Paul Newman, Pier Angeli, Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart. Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
Somebody Up There Likes Me is a 1956 American drama film directed by Robert Wise and starring Paul Newman and Pier Angeli, based on the life of middleweight boxing legend Rocky Graziano. The supporting cast features Everett Sloane, Eileen Heckart, Harold J. Stone, and Sal Mineo.
Released Jul 6, 1956 1h 53m Biography List. 86% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 86% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings. The abuse Rocky Barbella (Paul Newman) endures at the hand of his father and subsequent...
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Paul Newman rose to stardom for his portrayal of the real-life Rocky Graziano, a man who fought his way up from a life of crime to become Middleweight Champi...
When Warden George Niles visits Rocky in his cell, Rocky refuses his offer of help and instead burns him with a cigarette, thus earning himself a transfer to a brutal work camp. There, he beats up a guard and, while attempting to shoot him, is forcibly restrained by the other prisoners.
Sep 2, 2016 · Starring: Paul Newman, Sal Mineo and Everett SloaneSomebody Up There Likes Me (1956) Official Trailer - Paul Newman MovieBoxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based...
Academy Award winner Paul Newman stars in this bare-knuckled biography of boxer Rocky Graziano. Growing up as the toughest kid in the ghetto of New York's Lower East Side, Graziano spends half of his first twenty years in jails and detention homes.
Overview. The story of boxer Rocky Graziano's rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ. Robert Wise. Director. Rowland Barber. Novel. Rocky Graziano. Novel. Ernest Lehman. Screenplay. Top Billed Cast. Paul Newman.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Once you get past the fact that handsome Paul Newman could never pass for plug-ugly boxer Rocky Graziano in real life, you will be able to accept Somebody Up Their Likes Me as one of the more accomplished movie biopics of the 1950s.
Rocky Barbella's endured abuse through his young life, First, from his father, and it later run-ins with the law lead him in and out of detention centers and prisons. When it seems he has it together, Rocky's drafted but, refusing to follow Army rules, goes AWOL.
