Paradise Alley (1978)
Directed by Sylvester Stallone
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.
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It's a fantasy clubhouse catering to gearheads and bros in Affliction shirts, and a ways from Stallone's Paradise Alley or his long-stated dream project, an E.A. Poe biopic—for who better knows the travails of the artist in America?
Stallone has called in several big guns – and he fires some mean artillery, too – for his first original film as director since Paradise Alley in 1978.
Rambo IV is the first in the series directed by Stallone himself, and it's Stallone's first stab at directing full-fledged action -- other than four of the Rocky sequels, Stallone's only previous forays behind the camera were the likable Paradise Alley (1978) and the notoriously bad Saturday Night Fever sequel, Staying Alive (1983).