PARADISE ALLEY - BLU-SHOUT SELECT

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• Release Year: 1978
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: It's 1946 in Hell's Kitchen in New York City. Cosmo Carboni, the eldest of the three Carboni brothers, is lamenting what he sees as them not living up to their potential. Big talking Cosmo hustles and panhandles for money. Brooding Lenny Carboni, an injured veteran whose sullen attitude stems from his time in the war, is an undertaker. And youngest Victor Carboni, the simple muscle-man who wouldn't hurt a fly unless he's annoyed, is an iceman. Victor looks to Lenny and his Chinese-American girlfriend Susan Chow as his voices of reason. After Victor holds his own against wrestler Frankie the Thumper in an arm wrestling match, Frankie who is seen as the strongest man in the neighborhood, and after seeing the lucrative wrestling matches - which are more like street fights without rules - at the underground nightclub called Paradise Alley, Cosmo gets it into his head that wrestling may be Victor's calling and a way for them all to get out of Hell's Kitchen for good. The brothers would act as trainer and manager. Lenny, doing it only to ensure Victor's safety, and Victor, who is rechristened "Kid Salami", ultimately agree. But instead of bonding the brothers closer together, the wrestling life and their relationship to a taxi dancer named Annie threatens to tear them apart as their priorities start to diverge. And a wrestling match with Frankie, who, with his sadistic manager, Stitch Malone, treats it as a grudge match, may threaten Victor's life altogether.
• Cast: Tonga Fifita, Maria Smith, Patricia Spann, Frank Stallone, Jeff Wald, John Ayers, Rolland Bastien, Ted DiBiase, Vincent Albert DiStefano, Dory Funk Jr., Don Leo Jonathan, Don Kernodle, Gene Kiniski, Larry Lane, Randy Morse, Dick Murdoch, Reg Parks, Alex Perez, Rock Riddle, Robert Roop, Douglas Ryan, Don Slatton, Ervin Smith, Dennis Stamp, Thomas Gilbert Sr., Ray Stevens, Jeff McCracken, Ray Pourchot, Ray Sharkey, Stuart K. Robinson, Frank Pesce, Leo Nanas, Jay S. York, John Zenda, John Edward Allen, Ralph Gambina, Raven Grey Eagle, Georgette Renee Haines, Chester Hayes, Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Frank McRae, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Terry Funk, Joe Spinell, Aimee Eccles, Tom Waits, Chick Casey, Jimmy Casino, Fredi O. Gordon, Lydia Goya, Michael Jeffers, Max Leavitt, Paul Mace, Polli Magaro, Pamela Des Barres, John Monks Jr., Joyce Ingalls
• Director: Sylvester Stallone
• Runtime: 1:47
• Company: Universal Pictures, Shout Select
• Media Format: Movie