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Bang the Drum Slowly is a american film of genre Drama directed by John D. Hancock released in USA on 26 august 1973 with Robert De Niro
Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
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Add to a movie listBang the Drum Slowly is a 1973 sports drama. It is 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, Albert Salmi, and George Peppard.
This version was directed by John D. Hancock and stars Michael Moriarty and a then-little-known Robert De Niro as baseball teammates. De Niro's performance in this film and in Mean Streets, released two months later, brought him widespread acclaim.
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Henry Wiggen is a star pitcher for the New York Mammoths, a fictitious Major League Baseball team. He is a valuable player to his manager Dutch but is in a dispute with the team's ownership, holding out for a new contract and more money. Henry also has a sideline as an insurance salesman working for the Arcturus Corporation, with ballplayers as his clients.Actors
Robert De Niro
(Bruce Pearson)
Michael Moriarty
(Henry Wiggen)
Vincent Gardenia
(Dutch Schnell)
Phil Foster
(Joe)
Barton Heyman
(Red)
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