Paradise Alley (1978)
Paradise Alley was written and directed by Sylvester
Stallone, who also played the starring role in this entertaining
account of three Italian-American brothers whose sole purpose in
life is to better themselves and escape from the claustrophobia of
Hell's Kitchen in New York in 1946.
Stallone played the middle brother with Armand Assante as the
oldest, a wounded WWII veteran who works as an embalmer, walks
with a limp and is the bitterest of the three.
Lee Canalito played the youngest brother, who also happened to
be both the biggest and the most gentle.
Stallone and Assante planned to promote their baby brother as a
wrestler in order to earn enough money to move to a better part of
town.
The quest to do just that provided roles for Kevin Conway as an
Irish hood, Frank Rae as a has-been black wrestler, Anne Archer as
a redhead in a dime-a-dance hall, Joyce Ingalls as a whore, and
Aimee Eccles as a Chinese American who had young Canalito's
interests at heart.
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