Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the U.S. Steel Hour with Paul Newman and Albert Salmi.
The 1973 film was directed by John D. Hancock and stars Michael Moriarty as Henry ("Author") Wiggen, and a then young unknown actor named Robert De Niro in the role of Bruce Pearson. It was met with box office success and critical acclaim. De Niro'...
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Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 film adaptation of the 1956 baseball novel of the same name by Mark Harris. It was previously dramatized in 1956 on the U.S. Steel Hour with Paul Newman and Albert Salmi.
The 1973 film was directed by John D. Hancock and stars Michael Moriarty as Henry ("Author") Wiggen, and a then young unknown actor named Robert De Niro in the role of Bruce Pearson. It was met with box office success and critical acclaim. De Niro's performance in the film and in Mean Streets, released two months later, brought him widespread acclaim. Compared with other roles which have seemed to typecast him as a troubled loner (as in The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, and Taxi Driver) or a charismatic sociopath (as in The Godfather: Part II, Once Upon A Time In America, Goodfellas, Cape Fear and Heat), the Pearson role has been regarded as one of his more tragic and sensitive characters.
The non Florida baseball sequences were filmed at New York's Yankee and Shea Stadiums during the late...
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