Bang the Drum Slowly

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Bang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 American sports drama film about the friendship between a star pitcher and his terminally ill catcher on a professional baseball team.

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instanceOf American film
film
sports drama film
adaptationOf Bang the Drum Slowly (novel) NERFINISHED
basedOn Bang the Drum Slowly (novel) NERFINISHED
basedOnWorkAuthor Mark Harris NERFINISHED
cinematographyBy Richard Shore NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director John D. Hancock NERFINISHED
distributor Paramount Pictures
editedBy Richard Marks NERFINISHED
filmingFormat color
followsCharacter Bruce Pearson NERFINISHED
Henry Wiggen NERFINISHED
genre baseball film
sports drama
hasWikipediaPage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bang_the_Drum_Slowly_(film)
leadActorRole Michael Moriarty as Henry Wiggen NERFINISHED
Robert De Niro as Bruce Pearson
leadCharacterOccupation professional baseball pitcher
mpaaRating PG
musicBy Stephen Lawrence NERFINISHED
notableFor early major film role for Robert De Niro
novelPublicationYear 1956
originalLanguage English
otherCharacterOccupation professional baseball catcher
plotSummary A star pitcher befriends and protects his terminally ill catcher on a professional baseball team.
producer Marshall Backlar NERFINISHED
Maurice Rosenfield NERFINISHED
Milo O. Frank Jr. NERFINISHED
productionCompany Paramount Pictures NERFINISHED
releaseDate 1973-08-26
releaseYear 1973
runtimeMinutes 96
screenwriter Mark Harris NERFINISHED
setInSport baseball
setting Major League Baseball team
starring Ann Wedgeworth NERFINISHED
Michael Moriarty NERFINISHED
Phil Foster NERFINISHED
Robert De Niro NERFINISHED
Vincent Gardenia NERFINISHED
supportingActorRole Vincent Gardenia as Dutch Schnell NERFINISHED
theme friendship
loyalty
mortality
terminal illness
timePeriodOfSetting mid-20th century

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Vincent Gardenia notableWork Bang the Drum Slowly