Paradise Alley
Sep 22, 1978 | IMDB 5.8
107 min Watch NowAction, Drama
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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