Paradise Alley

Paradise Alley (1978)

Timing: 1:47 (107 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1978-09-22

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures, Force Ten Productions

Genre

Action, Drama

Budget

$6 000 000

Revenue

$7 185 518

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Director

Sylvester Stallone

Actors

Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Frank McRae, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Terry Funk, Joyce Ingalls, Joe Spinell, Aimée Eccles
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Scenario

Sylvester Stallone

Producer

Jeff Wald, Ronald A. Suppa, John F. Roach, Edward R. Pressman

Operator

László Kovács

Composer

Bill Conti

Artist

Audition

Caro Jones

Editing

Eve Newman
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• As in the film "Rocky," Sylvester Stallone's own brother, Frank Stallone, played a singer.
• Sylvester Stallone wrote the screenplay for this film even before he wrote the screenplay for the sports drama "Rocky" (1976), but this story did not attract any of the producers Stallone approached for a long time. Only after the resounding success of "Rocky" did producers agree to look at the screenplay, and "Universal Pictures" gave the green light to filming.
• While working on this film, Sylvester Stallone was a novice director, so several times it happened that both the actors and the crew were ready to shoot a scene, but couldn't start because Stallone forgot to say "Action!"
• Initially, Sylvester Stallone wanted all the main characters to be African American. He only managed to secure funding for the film when he agreed to star in it himself and made all the main characters Italian American.
• Originally, 'Hell's Kitchen' was significantly longer, but the film had to be cut at the insistence of Universal Pictures. According to Stallone himself, he cut a total of 40 scenes, 10 of which were later restored for television broadcast.
• As in the film «Rocky», Sylvester Stallone's own brother, Frank Stallone, played the singer.
• Sylvester Stallone wrote the film's screenplay even before he wrote the screenplay for the sports drama «Rocky» (1976), but this story did not attract any of the producers Stallone approached for a long time. Only after the resounding success of «Rocky» did producers agree to look at the screenplay, and the film company «Universal Pictures» gave the green light to filming.
• While working on this film, Sylvester Stallone was a novice director, so it happened several times that both the actors and the crew were ready to shoot a scene, but couldn't start because Stallone forgot to say "Action!"
• Initially, "Nighthawk" was significantly longer, but the film had to be cut at the insistence of the film company Universal Pictures. According to Stallone himself, he cut a total of 40 scenes, 10 of which were later returned to the film for television release.