The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 7.5
Strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down. Director:Otto Preminger |
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The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) 7.5
Strung-out junkie deals with daily demoralizing drug addiction while crippled wife and card sharks continue to pull him down. Director:Otto Preminger |
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Frank Sinatra | ... | ||
Eleanor Parker | ... | ||
Kim Novak | ... | ||
Arnold Stang | ... | ||
Darren McGavin | ... | ||
Robert Strauss | ... | ||
John Conte | ... | ||
Doro Merande | ... | ||
George E. Stone | ... |
Sam Markette
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George Mathews | ... |
Williams
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Leonid Kinskey | ... |
Dominiwski
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Emile Meyer | ... |
Detective Bednar
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Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction. Written by Mike Campanelli <mjc@rubinbaum.com>
This is easily one of the best movies of the 1950s. Otto Preminger directed only four or five really good movies and this is one of them. Frank Sinatra gives his best performance and the music score by Elmer Bernstein is dynamite. From the opening titles (by Saul Bass) to the hysteria of drug addict Frank going cold turkey, this is a riveting movie! With Kim Novak (giving a very good performance), Eleanor Parker (giving a very bad performance) as well as Darren McGavin as the reptilian pusher and Arnold Stang as Frank's grifter pal. Beware of bad prints: this movie is in the public domain so some copies are pretty rough.