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Somebody Up There Likes Me

  • 19561956
  • PassedPassed
  • 1h 53m
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7.5/10
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Paul Newman and Pier Angeli in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
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Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.Boxer Rocky Graziano's biopic, based on his autobiography, from childhood to his World Middleweight Championship title win at age 28 in 1947.
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    • Robert Wise
    • Ernest Lehman(screenplay)
    • Rocky Graziano(autobiography)
    • Rowland Barber(with)
  • Stars
    • Paul Newman
    • Pier Angeli
    • Everett Sloane
    • Robert Wise
    • Ernest Lehman(screenplay)
    • Rocky Graziano(autobiography)
    • Rowland Barber(with)
  • Stars
    • Paul Newman
    • Pier Angeli
    • Everett Sloane
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 79User reviews
    • 35Critic reviews
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Won 2 Oscars

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    Official Trailer
    Trailer 3:28
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    Photos59

    Paul Newman and Court Shepard in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
    Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
    Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
    Paul Newman and Pier Angeli in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Paul Newman & Pier Angeli, 1956.
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Paul Newman, 1956.
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Paul Newman, 1956.
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    Paul Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Paul Newman, 1956.
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Paul Newman on the set, 1956.
    "Somebody Up There Likes Me," Louis Armstrong & Paul Newman on the set, 1956.

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    Paul Newman
    Paul Newman
    • Rocky
    Pier Angeli
    Pier Angeli
    • Norma
    Everett Sloane
    Everett Sloane
    • Irving Cohen
    Eileen Heckart
    Eileen Heckart
    • Ma Barbella
    Sal Mineo
    Sal Mineo
    • Romolo
    Harold J. Stone
    Harold J. Stone
    • Nick Barbella
    Joseph Buloff
    Joseph Buloff
    • Benny
    Sammy White
    • Whitey Bimstein
    Arch Johnson
    Arch Johnson
    • Heldon
    Robert P. Lieb
    • District Attorney Hogan
    • (as Robert Lieb)
    Theodore Newton
    Theodore Newton
    • Athletic Commissioner Edward Eagan
    Caswell Adams
    • Sam
    • (uncredited)
    Stanley Adams
    Stanley Adams
    • Romolo's Attorney
    • (uncredited)
    John Albright
    • Reporter
    • (uncredited)
    Fred Aldrich
    Fred Aldrich
    • Ringside Photographer - Zale Fight
    • (uncredited)
    Leon Alton
    Leon Alton
    • Military Fight Spectator
    • (uncredited)
    Don Anderson
    Don Anderson
    • Reporter
    • (uncredited)
    Harry Arnie
    • Spectator
    • (uncredited)
      • Robert Wise
      • Ernest Lehman(screenplay)
      • Rocky Graziano(autobiography)
      • Rowland Barber(with)
    • All cast & crew
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    • Trivia
      The movie was originally to be filmed on location in New York City in Technicolor with James Dean in the lead role. However, after Dean's sudden death and replacement by Paul Newman, it was decided the film should be in black and white, and filmed on studio sets. Director Robert Wise felt the sets looked fake, and only used them for night scenes, while filming the daytime scenes on location.
    • Goofs
      When Norma asks Benny for directions how to get home after meeting Rocky in the early 1940s, he tells her to take a Subway route that did not exist until 1954.
    • Quotes

      Irving Cohen: I never should have left the lingerie business. I was the happiest man in women's underwear.

    • Crazy credits
      The film opens with the following on-screen quote before the title and opening credits: This is the way I remember it... _definitely_. -Rocky Graziano.
    • Connections
      Featured in Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge (1989)
    • Soundtracks
      Somebody Up There Likes Me
      (1956)

      Music by Bronislau Kaper

      Lyrics By Sammy Cahn

      Sung by Perry Como during the opening and closing credits

    User reviews79

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    6/10
    Incomplete biography of Graziano
    Probably the director Robert Wise wanted to emphasize more on the behavior of young Graziano, his problems with his father, the time he spent in jail and his misdoing in the army, but some aspects of his final life as a boxer were not shown at all in the film, which ends with the rematch between Graziano and Tony Zale in Chicago in 1947, where Graziano did his best to knock out Zale. With this victory Graziano became world champion, something that did not last for long. Zale and Graziano met once again in 1948, and this time Zale finished his adversary with a knock out in the third round. Graziano wanted to come back in 1952 fighting against the famous Ray "Sugar" Robinson. In that fight, Graziano knocked down Robinson in the third round, but he recovered and finished with Graziano in the same third round. In any case, Graziano was a good boxer, and this bloody -violent sport put his life on the right track. Interesting to note that this was the first film (uncredited) in the career of the actor Steve McQueen. Sal Mineo again acted as a wrong young boy in New York. The actress Pier Angeli did a good work as Graziano's wife.
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    • Jan 27, 2005

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    • Release date
      • July 4, 1956 (United States)
      • United States
      • English
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    • Filming locations
      • Stillman's Gym - 8th Avenue between 54th & 55th Streets, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production company
      • Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
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    • 1 hour 53 minutes
      • Black and White

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