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All rights reserved.Bang the Drum Slowly (2003, DVD)
Bang the Drum Slowly. "Lay it on thin." Baseball flick with De Niro.Review created: 03/16/03
by: CyndiA -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Good story. Nice use of music. Early De Niro.
Good story. Nice use of music. Early De Niro.
Cons:
Bland Moriarty. Really bad fashion.
Bland Moriarty. Really bad fashion.
Bang the Drum Slowly was first a popular novel by Mark Harris (the second in his Henry Wiggins series) in 1956, then a 60-minute, made-for-TV movie later that year starring Paul Newman and then finally a remake in 1973 with Robert De Niro and Michael Moriarty. Typically the one that you ll rent at the video store is the full-length Hollywood version from , but some copies are around from the 50s. The title for this movie (and the book) comes from a very old Celtic folk song. When the song hit the States, the focus was on sailing but later (and the version most people will know) featured a...
Review ID: 10000000000584857
"I rag nobody."Review created: 08/02/00
by: elliejo -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
DeNiro's acting, nice baseball action, great changes in characters
DeNiro's acting, nice baseball action, great changes in characters
Cons:
Michael Moriarty, so-so cinematography.
Michael Moriarty, so-so cinematography.
Bang the Drum Slowly has all the right ingredients for a big American movie success--baseball, good guys, bad guys, terminal illness and a young Robert DeNiro. Unfortunately, this 1974 film doesn't quite make the "Big" status, , but Mark Harris' screen play of his own novel does have a lot going for it. DeNiro, at this early stage of his career, shows germinal brilliance, and clearly exhibits the talent for playing any role--not just the grim mobster or monster type, and show any emotion you can name, and in combinations you never thought possible. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The title...
Review ID: 10000000000584858
Brian's Song on a baseball diamondReview created: 01/13/00
by: Kidnykid -- a member of Epinions
Pros:
Robert DeNiro
Robert DeNiro
Cons:
The rest of the film
The rest of the film
That's what this movie was called when I was working on my bachelor's degree, and to an extent, that's a fair description. Michael Moriarty (known to most readers as LAW AND ORDER's Ben Stone) and Robert DeNiro play a pitcher-catcher team who can't be more different personally and still be of the same race. During the course of the movie, it is discovered that DeNiro's character has lymphoma, a form of cancer, and the rest of the movie is taken up with Moriarty's efforts to keep his partner's illness under wraps (after all, that was what one did when someone in his social class got as sick as.
Review ID: 10000000000584859
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