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Paradise Alley [VHS]

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2 star:		(2)
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Who ever doesn't like this movie, doen't understand what it is about! It is a great flick about the start of Pro Wrestling. Like "The Gangs of NY" it shows the side of the city that the wealthy "Tadamy Hall" people don't like you to see. Not only is it factual about a time after WWI but before WWII, it shows how people really lived. It was a tuff life and you did what you could do to make a buck! Anne Archer is as hot as can be. Sly plays a great role in Cosmo, and Victor, the big brother is super. A great flick, I wish they would bring it out in widescreen DVD. Remember, the critics hated this flick which usually means it is a good movie, unless you like artsy fartsy junk. This is a man's flick a belongs in the catagory "Movies for men who like movies"!

I love the part where Stallone trashes the filthy street santa with the ashcan lid.

This is a great movie I saw this years ago and loved it good story and if you love wrestling you love this because this is the greatest wrestling movie and love story and just fun to watch.

thank you

In this movie Sylvester Stallone plays Cosmo Carboni who seeks a better life than the one he has in Hell's Kitchen back in the 1940's. He dreams to escape just might be realized when he convinces his brother to become a Profesional Wrestler going by the name of 'Kid Salami". Armade Assante is also in this film and gives a very good performance as the ordinary guy who has dreams of a better life. Anne Archer is also present in this movie and as always she is a very classy lady to watch. This is a very good movie about unfullfilled Hopes and Dreams and the Importance Of Family.

The first scene is pretty neat. Stallone sprinting on rooftops for money. I think that scene inspired the rocky training montages. Can't really say that the rest of the film is worth watching. This is one of those films that will never make it to DVD and I can completely understand why. I doubt there are many people out there willing to purchase it. I think the movie could have done alot better without the wrestling aspect of the story. Stallone has a habit of starting a story off well and then mixing some stupid sport into it. It worked with the rocky movies but that's about it.

Kid Salami is one of the dumbest names I've ever heard.

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SYLVESTER STALLONE stars in a comedy about NY life in the 1940's. Three brothers, stooges, fail at multiple attempts to make it out of the slums of Hell's Kitchen. In trying to make the big bucks, they neglect the one thing that matters, Love. In realizing this, the little brother makes a decision that might jeopardize their big Blue Heaven.

I thought the movie was funny in every scene, but it wasn't so funny as a movie. If that makes sense. I thought this may have been due to poor direction, STALLONE'S debut. It would make a very good Theatre production. Cutting a few scenes out of the picture, would have made it a better movie (example: ice cream scene).

A few things about the movie stand out. Firstly, this is legendary singer/songwriter TOM WAITS' Hollywood debut. Any TOM WAITS fan will want to get this movie, just to watch those few glorious moments over and over again.

Secondly, SYLVESTER STALLONE sings the theme song. This is priceless. If you've watched his career blossom, and are able to observe the contradiction in his newly found intellectualism, then you will appreciate hearing him sing a theme song for a movie. I rank this action second to hearing WILLIAM SHATNER'S rendition of 'Rocketman'. Very nice.

Thirdly, the lines spoken by a thug mentioned in a previous review are truely classic.

So it's a great picture, however, the optimum enjoyment for this movie is to be experienced in parts, by previewing one scene, before that evening's alternate DVD is queued.

I liked this film because I like stallone and the part where he is carying the ice up the stairs

why carnt I by it in this country if any one can get it for the uk will thay e mail me and tell me.

There are a couple of inspired scenes in this movie, one in which Sly is carrying a large block of ice up the stairs of his apartment building and he drops it and it shatters, and the inspired climactic fight sequence in which the ring is out in the open and the contestants are wrestling during a thunderstorm. There are the obvious parallels to ROCKY and one scene of animal cruelty which I found disturbing (in NZ this movie is R16 despite being PG everywhere else. Stoopid huh?) but otherwise this is a rambling incoherant mess. Still, Sly has made far worse.

With 3 brothers trying to put their difference aside, they try to conquer the wrestling world. With Cosmo(Stallone), and brother Lenny(Arsanti)arguing over the same dame like teenage kids. Their youngest brother VICTOR is stomping butt in HIGH OCTANE wresling matches. I personally think that Stallone(who directed the movie) should have used better, and more ferocious wrestlers than Ray Stevenson,Ted Debiosi, and the Funks. Although Terry Funk's lines were hilarious, and every wrestling buff out there knows that he is the King of HARDCORE wreslting. A very good betrayal of if you can't fight, get someone bigger than you to fight for you.