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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...

Author: By Max Gould, | Title: Paradise Lost | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...most of those that were. Set in 1946, the story tells of three downtrodden brothers who dream of breaking out of Manhattan's impoverished Hell's Kitchen: a lame World War II vet (Armand Assante), a loudmouthed schemer (Stallone) and a dumb but sweet aspiring wrestler (Lee Canalito). As Alice Kramden of TV's The Honeymooners might put it, what we have here are a gimp, a blimp and a simp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hard Times | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

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