SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME
(M.G.M.) A Cert. Teo long also, by several thousand feet--as so many films are nowadays -is the screen biography of Rocky Graziano. A slum _ child, whose frustrated boxer father would knock him
down if he whimpered in a tough workout, this world chamipion’s story is pretty unpleasant, though part of the audience who saw it with me seemed to find his delinquency amusing. When neither prison nor the army had _ cured or crushed him, the boxing ring was his salvation (also his sublimation), which a devoted wife made secure. This story of how one man climbed out of the gutter is remarkable for a fine performance by Paul Newman as the hero. He starts off like an overblown Brandoscratching, shuffling, mumbling-but before long develops a considerable power of his own. As his wife, Pier Angeli plays appealingly, and his devotion to her shows the best side of his odd character. I found pretty objectionable, though, the pay-off line which gives ‘the film its title. The direction of Robert Wise is always competent and, in a starkly effective way, sometimes more than that-as in a slum sequence when Rocky runs away to his old haunts just before the title bout. We have Rocky’s word for it, by the way, that this, definitely, is his life as he remembers it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 914, 15 February 1957, Page 21
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223SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 914, 15 February 1957, Page 21
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