High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Paradise Alley is a 1978 film about three brothers in Hell`s Kitchen, New York City in the 1940s who become involved in professional wrestling. It was written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, and was given the green light by Universal Pictures after Stallone`s success with 1976`s Rocky. Stallone also stars as Cosmo, one of the brothers, and sings the film`s title song.