The story of a young punch-drunk bum boxer (Sylvester Stallone) who, by a freak of fate, gets his chance to have a crack at the heavy-weight title and in doing so wins for himself the self-respect he has been missing all his life.


Books with substantial mentioning of Rocky

Lawrence Webb
The cinema of urban crisis, Seventies film and the reinvention of the city
Amsterdam, 2014

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Frederick V. Romano
The Boxing Filmography, American Features, 1920-2003
Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 2004

James Robert Parish and George H. Hill
Black Action Films, Plots, Critiques, Casts and Credits for 235 Theatrical and Made-for-Television Releases
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London, 1989

Robert Bookbinder
The Films of the Seventies
Secaucus, NJ, 1982

Articles on Rocky

Rocky, in: Empire, nr. 264 (June), 2011 pp. 170

Articles with substantial mentioning of Rocky

Dan Jolin, The Top 10 movie mentors, in: Empire, nr. 208 (October), 2006 pp. 66-67

Reviews

David Hughes, King of the ring, in: Empire, nr. 198 (December), 2005 pp. 192 (DVD review)