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Aided by some perfect passing, the Crimson scored easy layups on an alley-oop play and a breakaway basket to capture a four-point lead early in the second half. Once the score reached 70-67 in Harvard's favor with ten minutes remaining in the contest, both teams suffered a five-minute scoring drought until a Bentley field goal broke the ice, setting the stage for Fine's defensive masterpiece...
...Hell's Kitchen of 1946, Paradise Alley tells the story of three close-knit Italian brothers who are able to break out of New York's slums on the strength of faith, perseverance and the fortunate circumstance that one happens to be an excellent wrestler. Stallone's Cosmo is an aspiring hustler who let his hair grow and donned an earring to avoid the draft. He is supposed to be an eccentric, funny, loveable guy, with a kind heart and an abundance of home-spun wisdom. Stallone, however, fails to give his character any depth. Cosmo is an amalgamation...
Cosmo convinces Victor (Lee Canalito), the brother long on muscle and short on brains, to make them some money by fighting at a wrestling joint, Paradise Alley. He is the familiar good-natured idiot, in the vein of Lenny in Steinbeck's Of Mice...
Perhaps Stallone foresaw some problems with such jejune characters. This would explain his painstaking efforts to inject some life into this insipid movie. He does anything to wring some emotion out of the audience, but the credibility and consistency of Paradise Alley suffers...
...watch Paradise Alley, with its tried and contrived plot and its painfully obvious and ineffective attempt to manipulate the audience's emotions, you realize that Stallone simply lacks the intelligence to make a good movie. He cannot penetrate beyond cliches...