In the true tradition of big studios after Leslie Caron scored her big triumphal
debut in An American In Paris MGM assigns her to a grade B flick where she performs in a Bourbon Street saloon on a side alley called Glory Alley. If they
did not have a big project for you right away you still earned your salary in whatever they had at the moment.
In those first 10 minutes I couldn't quite believe what I saw. Ralph Meeker is an up and coming heavyweight contender with 33 straight wins 28 of them by knockout we are told. His character to me obviously based on Rocky Marciano.
Can you imagine Marciano as the ring introductions were made just getting up and walking out of his fight with Jersey Joe Walcott? Because that's what Meeker does. This man must be one drama queen. It goes downhill from there as he does go to war in Korea and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor. In the end we're given no real reason why Meeker does all this and the narrated ending by newspaperman John McIntire really makes it all so ludicrous.
Leslie Caron is given a few numbers to sing and dance and the appearance of jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden are welcome.
But this whole film is ridiculous. How did Raoul Walsh get roped into this one?
In those first 10 minutes I couldn't quite believe what I saw. Ralph Meeker is an up and coming heavyweight contender with 33 straight wins 28 of them by knockout we are told. His character to me obviously based on Rocky Marciano.
Can you imagine Marciano as the ring introductions were made just getting up and walking out of his fight with Jersey Joe Walcott? Because that's what Meeker does. This man must be one drama queen. It goes downhill from there as he does go to war in Korea and wins the Congressional Medal of Honor. In the end we're given no real reason why Meeker does all this and the narrated ending by newspaperman John McIntire really makes it all so ludicrous.
Leslie Caron is given a few numbers to sing and dance and the appearance of jazz greats Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden are welcome.
But this whole film is ridiculous. How did Raoul Walsh get roped into this one?