Everyone loves an underdog. Sylvester Stallone knew that in 1976, when Rocky was a monstrous hit and established itself in the cultural lexicon of Hollywood movies. His low-budget tale of a young boxer who came from the slums of Philadelphia and worked his way to the championship recalls Capra characters such as Mr Smith or John Doe as he worked his way to fame and self-respect. Like ...
Otto Preminger's sprawling Second World War drama, In Harm's Way, packs a lot in its 165 minutes, beginning with the attack on Pearl Harbor (which Preminger re-creates in amazing detail) and ending a couple of years later with America's return to the South Pacific in force. John Wayne and Kirk Douglas star as a career naval captain and his self-pitying commander in the peacetime navy who ...
The 1976 Best Picture Award-winner Rocky has the look of a contemporary on-the-streets movie like Taxi Driver, but the heart of a fairytale. For the Bicentennial Year, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers), a Muhammad Ali-like stars-and-stripes blowhard, cynically offers a title shot to an unknown over-the-hill Philadelphia club fighter, Rocky Balboa (Sylvester ...
Everyone loves an underdog. Sylvester Stallone knew that in 1976, when Rocky was a monstrous hit and established itself in the cultural lexicon of Hollywood movies. His low-budget tale of a young boxer who came from the slums of Philadelphia and worked his way to the championship recalls Capra characters such as Mr Smith or John Doe as he worked his way to fame and self-respect. Like ...