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It's Good to Be Alive is a 1974 American television film about baseball player Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was first aired on CBS on 22 February 1974. Based in part on his 1960 autobiography of the same name, it explores his role in integrating baseball, his own professional rise, and the physical and emotional work of recovery he had to undergo after the devastating 1958 auto accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. One of the scariest scenes involved a fly, who flew into the hospital window, frightening Roy, who screamed, sending the doctors, who swatted the fly to death. The film made a few changes to the story, where Ruthie can no longer stand taking care of Roy, resulting in separation and divorce, in 1958, when it really happened in 1960. The moving fi

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rdfs:label	It's Good to Be Alive (film) (en) It's Good to be Alive (it) It's Good to Be Alive (nl)
rdfs:comment	It's Good to be Alive è un film del 1974 diretto da Michael Landon, interpretato da Paul Winfield e Louis Gossett Jr. È ispirato all'autobiografia del giocatore di baseball Roy Campanella. (it) It's Good to Be Alive is een Amerikaanse speelfilm uit 1974, geregisseerd door Michael Landon. De film is gebaseerd op de Autobiografie It's Good to Be Alive (1960) van . (nl) It's Good to Be Alive is a 1974 American television film about baseball player Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was first aired on CBS on 22 February 1974. Based in part on his 1960 autobiography of the same name, it explores his role in integrating baseball, his own professional rise, and the physical and emotional work of recovery he had to undergo after the devastating 1958 auto accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. One of the scariest scenes involved a fly, who flew into the hospital window, frightening Roy, who screamed, sending the doctors, who swatted the fly to death. The film made a few changes to the story, where Ruthie can no longer stand taking care of Roy, resulting in separation and divorce, in 1958, when it really happened in 1960. The moving fi (en)
dcterms:subject	1970s American films 1974 films Biographical films about sportspeople Metromedia Producers Corporation films American baseball films American television films Cultural depictions of baseball players Films set in the 1950s 1970s biographical films 1974 television films Films about paraplegics or quadriplegics
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Roy Campanella Ruby Dee Paul Winfield Charles Fries (producer) 1970s American films 1974 films Biographical films about sportspeople Len Lesser Lloyd Gough Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Louis Gossett Jr. Metromedia Producers Corporation films Brooklyn Dodgers CBS Walter O'Malley American baseball films American television films Cultural depictions of baseball players Films set in the 1950s Ted Voigtlander 1970s biographical films 1974 television films Films about paraplegics or quadriplegics Joe De Santis Ketty Lester 20th Century Fox Television Michael Landon Michel Legrand Ramon Bieri Monaural
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audio format	Monaural
based on	novel by Roy Campanella (en)
cinematography	Ted Voigtlander
company	Larry Harmon Pictures Corporation (en) Metromedia Producers Corporation (en)
country	United States (en)
director	Michael Landon
distributor	20 (xsd:integer) CBS
editor	John A. Martinelli (en)
executive producer	Charles Fries (producer) Larry Harmon (en)
genre	Drama (en) Sport (en) Biography (en)
language	English (en)
music	Michel Legrand
network	CBS (en)
picture format	Color (en)
producer	Richard Marx (en) Gerald I. Isenberg (en)
runtime	6000.0 (second)
starring	Paul Winfield Louis Gossett Jr.
writer	Steve Gethers (en)
has abstract	It's Good to Be Alive is a 1974 American television film about baseball player Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was first aired on CBS on 22 February 1974. Based in part on his 1960 autobiography of the same name, it explores his role in integrating baseball, his own professional rise, and the physical and emotional work of recovery he had to undergo after the devastating 1958 auto accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down. One of the scariest scenes involved a fly, who flew into the hospital window, frightening Roy, who screamed, sending the doctors, who swatted the fly to death. The film made a few changes to the story, where Ruthie can no longer stand taking care of Roy, resulting in separation and divorce, in 1958, when it really happened in 1960. The moving finale involved Roy, making an appearance at the LA Coliseum, in a wheelchair, receiving a standing ovation, after making a speech. (en) It's Good to be Alive è un film del 1974 diretto da Michael Landon, interpretato da Paul Winfield e Louis Gossett Jr. È ispirato all'autobiografia del giocatore di baseball Roy Campanella. (it) It's Good to Be Alive is een Amerikaanse speelfilm uit 1974, geregisseerd door Michael Landon. De film is gebaseerd op de Autobiografie It's Good to Be Alive (1960) van . (nl)
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film director	Michael Landon
distributor	CBS

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