Somebody Up There Likes Me

I have a problem rating something so attractively filmed any lower, especially in b&w, but this is seriously cornball stuff. Newman's attempt at a Brooklyn accent is embarrassing.

It took me about fifteen minutes to get used to Newman's Italian-American accent. He played the role of "Rocky" with a lot of enthusiasm but lacked the smooth charm of his later movies.

I like this film, but it wears out it's welcome long before it's over. The first half is pretty dynamically shot and generally a lively film. The last act is fairly egregiously "Hollywood biopic" and I don't believe that any of it happened remotely like this. I'll also say ... I think Paul Newman's performance is quite good, but his "Hey! I'm Italian here!" accent really starts to wear on me. Still ... decent film. Pier Angeli and Everett Sloane are particularly good.

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Great boxing movie and life story of Rocky Graziano.

It's not as good as the Byington film that shares its name.

This film has one of the best performances by Paul Newman, that alone says a lot. A great script and great directing makes the film a real classic!

I don't know if them dudes were hitting each other for real or what but that last boxing scene looked damn natural

Superior performance by Newman.

Paul Newman is a good actor but never entirely convincing as an Italian. The Jews in the movie are bit too stereotypical. It sucks they don't show Graziano's first fight vs Zale, and that Zale didn't play himself as he was originally set to. Flaws aside, and although not quite as great as Robert Wise's boxing-film-noir The Set-Up, Somebody Up There Likes Me is a classic boxing movie. Graziano's story is intriguing and kind of makes one wish there were more good old-time-boxing biopics like this.

The most intriguing thing about Newman's performance here is that it has little of the charismatic verve that drove later work in films like Hud or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. It's a thick, meaty character piece. Newman brings integrity to his character's brutishness, subsuming his natural sparkle in favor of a honest portrayal of simpler man. Much of the film's storytelling could be lifted whole, recreated now and still feel contemporary.

beautifully made, paul newman puts on some serious acting skills, and the plot here is interesting and never boring.

Very nicely done. Makes a good companion piece with Robert Wise's other boxing movie _The Set-Up_