Rocky III
Appearance
Rocky III | |
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Directed by | Sylvester Stallone |
Written by | Sylvester Stallone |
Produced by | Robert Chartoff Irwin Winkler |
Starring | Sylvester Stallone Burgess Meredith Talia Shire Burt Young Carl Weathers Mr. T |
Cinematography | James Crabe |
Edited by | Richard Halsey Scott Conrad |
Music by | Bill Conti |
Distributed by | United Artists |
Release dates |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama movie. It was directed, written by, and starred, Sylvester Stallone. The movie is about a famed boxer fighting against Clubber Lang. It is the sequel to Rocky II.
It was followed by Rocky IV in 1985.
Cast
[change | change source]- Sylvester Stallone as Robert "Rocky" Balboa, Sr., a heavyweight champion.
- Talia Shire as Adrian Balboa, Rocky's wife.
- Burt Young as Paulie Pennino, Adrian's brother; a meat-packing plant worker by trade, Paulie lets Rocky train in the freezer.
- Carl Weathers as Apollo Creed, Rocky's friend and heavyweight champion. The character was based on real-life boxing great Muhammad Ali.
- Burgess Meredith as Mickey Goldmill: Rocky's manager and trainer, a former bantamweight fighter from the 1920s and the owner of the local boxing gym.
- Mr. T as Clubber Lang, Rocky's next opponent and killer of Mickey Goldmill.
Sequels
[change | change source]- Rocky IV (1985)
- Rocky V (1990)
- Rocky Balboa (2006)
- Creed (2015)
- Creed II (2018)
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