Paradise Alley
The Carboni Boys. They haul ice, lay out stiffs and dance with monkeys.
Country
Production
Budget
$6 000 000
Box office
$7 185 518
Director
Actors
Sylvester Stallone, Lee Canalito, Armand Assante, Frank McRae, Anne Archer, Kevin Conway, Terry Funk, Joyce Ingalls, Joe Spinell, Aimée Eccles
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Jeff Wald, Ronald A. Suppa, John F. Roach, Edward R. Pressman
Camera operator
Composer
Bill Conti
Artist
John W. Corso
Audition
Caro Jones
Editing
Eve Newman
Whole Team (17)
Whole Team (17)
Short description
Three Italian-American brothers, living in the slums of 1940's New York City, try to help each other with one's wrestling career using one brother's promotional skills and another brother's con-artist tactics to thwart a sleazy manager.
What's left behind the scenes
- 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.
- 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.
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Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
Кастинги в Україні
