#Rocky 1976 full movie movie#

Stallone went on to write and star in five more Rocky movies: Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982), Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006). Rocky includes such memorable lines as РІР‚СљYo, Adrian!РІР‚Сњ (directed at RockyРІР‚в„ўs love interest, played by Talia Shire) and РІР‚СљYouРІР‚в„ўre gonna eat lightning, youРІР‚в„ўre gonna crap thunder,РІР‚Сњ as well as the now-iconic scene in which Rocky takes a training run up and down the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the movieРІР‚в„ўs theme song, РІР‚СљGonna Fly Now,РІР‚Сњ plays. Produced on a shoestring budget, the film told the story of Rocky Balboa, a small-time, down-on-his-luck Philadelphia boxer who works as a debt collector for a loan shark before getting a shot at the world heavyweight championship. StalloneРІР‚в„ўs career was transformed after the success of his next screenplay, Rocky, in which he insisted on playing the lead. Rocky Balboa is a struggling Philadelphia boxer who is scorned by his. Frustrated by his lack of success, Stallone started penning screenplays, including The Lords of Flatbush (1974), in which he co-starred with another relatively unknown young actor named Henry Winkler. Although its plot - nonentity gets to fight the heavyweight champ - is basically fantasy. Expand your home video library from a huge online selection of movies at.

#Rocky 1976 full movie movie#

By the early 1970s, he had begun his professional acting career, appearing in off-Broadway shows and bit movie roles. Rocky is an old-fashioned fairytale brilliantly revamped to chime in with the depressed mood of the 70s. Get great deals on Rocky (1976 film) Movie/TV Title DVDs.

When world heavyweight boxing champ Apollo Creed wants to give an unknown fighter a shot at the title as a publicity stunt, his handlers pick palooka Rocky Balboa, an uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark. Sylvester Stallone was born on July 6, 1946, in New York City. His whole life was a million-to-one shot.