Jon Favreau stars in this bio-pic about the only undefeated world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing, Rocky Marciano.Jon Favreau stars in this bio-pic about the only undefeated world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing, Rocky Marciano.Jon Favreau stars in this bio-pic about the only undefeated world heavyweight champion in the history of boxing, Rocky Marciano.
- Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination
Noah Dalton Danby
- Carmine Vingo
- (as Noah Danby)
J. Winston Carroll
- Murphy
- (as John Winston Carrol)
Robert Latimer Cornell
- TV Producer
- (as Robert Latimer)
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Did you know
- TriviaTony Lo Bianco played Marciano in Marciano (1979).
- GoofsOne scene, set in 1951, shows Marciano and others watching Joe Louis on a color television set - more than two years before the first such sets were even marketed to the public.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Sopranos: D-Girl (2000)
- SoundtracksAdagio for Strings
Written by Samuel Barber
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a fine film
First of all an interesting footnote, Tony Lo Bianco played Marciano in a 1979 tv film and also appears in this one as slimy mobster Frankie Carbo (he plays a really detestable character). This is a great film about the real life Rocky. Someone once fed some facts about boxing champions into a computer and the computer said Rocky was the greatest champ of all time. This can be debated of course, but this film shows him as not only a great boxer but as a humble, decent human being who literally started out with nothing. It made me angry watching this film as to how poor Italian immigrants like the Marcianos were treated as second class people and labeled as "dagos". In one of his last performances, George C. Scott is wonderful as Marciano's father. There is one mistake in this film, however. It shows Marciano visiting his friend Joe Louis in a Denver mental hospital. In fact, Joe Louis wasn't committed to this hospital until 1970 a year after Marciano was killed in a tragic plane crash.
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- dtucker86
- Feb 22, 2002
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