Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) (MOD) "Warner Home Video"

Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) (MOD) "Warner Home Video""World's Leading Boxers Train Here Daily" says a sign outside Stillman's Gym. Thomas Rocco Barbella isn't a boxer. He's just a scrappy, desperate youth who needs dough. So he enters the gym, gives himself the made up name of Rocky Graziano, signs on to spar for $10. and flattens a top light heavyweight. The name sticks. So does the impact of this inspiring tale about Graziano's rise from poverty and rage to the middleweight title. In his second film,

Filled with gripping plots

The result is a sinfully hilarious tale of immaculate deception

World War II has finally ended and England slowly limps back to normal as men come home from the front and families start to reconstruct their lives

and with a son who is unexpectedly selected for a rival team and rather enjoys beating the socks off Pop's squad

siccing the big cats on any fool who dares get in his way

vilified by press and public alike

all right - to take you and your crime empire down

Also cast "against type" are "Sweater Sweetheart" Lana Turner as Jekyll's fiancee and Ingrid Bergman

in the house

The century's leading artist commanded them all

who's carrying on a one-sided romance with an oblivious geology professor (Richard Quine)

Your first course of holiday cheer from Fred and co