Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 123movies

Watch: Bang the Drum Slowly 1973 123movies, Full Movie Online – Henry Wiggen (Author to his friends) and Bruce Pearson are members of the New York Mammoths major-league baseball team–Author the star pitcher, Bruce the catcher who never quite lived up to his potential–friends and roommates when they’re on the road. During the off-season, Bruce is diagnosed with the terminal case of Hodgkin’s disease. Author is the only teammate who knows about it; neither plans to tell anyone. Author takes extraordinary measures to ensure that he is playing ball with Bruce during what will probably be Bruce’s final season. Author looks after Bruce in part because Bruce is mentally a simple man who can easily be taken advantage of, especially by his opportunistic girlfriend Katie. As the season progresses, the team isn’t quite gelling, despite being the best team on paper. But as information comes to light, the dynamic on the team changes to make it a memorable end of the season especially for Bruce, who finishes on his own terms..
Plot: The story of a New York pro baseball team and two of its players. Henry Wiggen is the star pitcher and Bruce Pearson is the normal, everyday catcher who is far from the star player on the team and friend to all of his teammates. During the off-season, Bruce learns that he is terminally ill, and Henry, his only true friend, is determined to be the one person there for him during his last season with the club. Throughout the course of the season, Henry and his teammates attempt to deal with Bruce’s impending illness, all the while attempting to make his last year a memorable one.
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Ratings:

	6.8/10 Votes: 5,951
	92% | RottenTomatoes
	80/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 37 Popularity: 4.896 | TMDB

Reviews:

What entails a good Sports movie
Good sports movies are hard to come by. Sure, there are a lot that are pretty decent, the ones that truly strike a chord seem to have been made mostly in the 70’s, and this one is included. DeNiro plays a struggling catcher on the Yankees who finds out hes’s dying, and Moriarty plays the pitcher. They’re two completely different characters who form a bond with each other throughout the last year or so of the catcher’s life. And though it still somehow gets centered mainly on Moriarty until the pivotal points of the movie, DeNiro still amazes, as the slow witted catcher with a problem that he doesn’t want to tell anyone, so as not to get pity. This is real story with baseball as the backdrop, and that’s how it should be done, to get real sports movies.

Bangs With A Wallop-Bang the Drum Slowly ***1/2
Usually in baseball every pitcher and catcher on a particular team develop some sort of relationship since they need team work to be successful. Such is the story here added with the complication that the catcher Bruce, shyly but beloved character played by Robert De Niro, is dying of Hodgkins Disease. As the dying catcher, De Niro captures a simplicity rarely seen in his acting. It’s really a standout performance.

Michael Moriarty is the faithful pitcher and Vincent Gardenia received a well deserved supporting nomination as the suspicious manager of the team who hires a detective to find out what’s going on between these 2 guys.

Inevitably, the team finds out and attempts to come to the rescue of the stricken catcher.

This is certainly one of the best of the baseball pictures as in the case of Pride of the Yankees, it explores tragedy and the human relationship among team players than can develop during such adversity.

Selma Diamond is on hand as is effective in her brief 2 scene appearance as the sly telephone operator who knows something is amiss.

The one disappointment was that when the inevitable occurs during off season, other than the Moriarty character, no one else attended the funeral.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated PG
Genre Drama, Sport
Director John D. Hancock
Writer Mark Harris
Actors Michael Moriarty, Robert De Niro, Vincent Gardenia
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 1 Oscar. 2 wins & 1 nomination total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Colorlab Laboratory and Telecine Services, Rockville (MD), USA, Movielab, USA
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm