Frank Sinatra

Eleanor Parker

Kim Novak

Arnold Stang

Darren McGavin

Robert Strauss

John Conte

Doro Merande

George E. Stone

George Mathews

Leonid Kinskey

Emile Meyer

Shorty Rogers

Shelly Manne

Herschel Graham

Frank Mills

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

Jeffrey Sayre

Jered Barclay

Leonard Bremen

Paul E. Burns

Pete Candoli

Harold 'Tommy' Hart

Mike Lally

Frank Marlowe

Joe McTurk

Gordon Mitchell

Jack Mulhall

Ralph Neff

Norman Papson

Ernest Raboff

Frank Richards

Suzanne Ridgway

Charles Seel

Martha Wentworth

Will Wright

Sam Leavitt

Elmer Bernstein

Albert Myers

Louis R. Loeffler

Otto Preminger

Jack McEdward

Darrell Silvera

Walter Newman

Helen Thurston

Lewis Meltzer

Joseph C. Wright

Martha Crawford

Paul Baxley

Bernard Ponedel

James Almond

Joe King

Adele Parmenter

Ben Lane

Jack Stone

Leon Birnbaum

Hazel Keats

Nelson Algren

Horace Hough

James Engle

Mary Ann Nyberg

Jack Solomon

Kathleen Fagan

Helene Parrish

Max Slater

Morris Rosen

Saul Bass

Ben Hecht

Drama

Crime

The Man with the Golden Arm

Carlyle Productions

United States of America

English

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This story has quite a well trodden feel to it. Frank Sinatra's "Frankie" is released from a stint in prison and heads straight back to the drug-infused melting pot from whence he came. Initially intent on staying clean, soon peer pressures and his struggle to survive, with his high-maintenance wife "Zosh" (Eleanor Parker) have him back at square one. It might just be that his salvation can come from his lover, the excellent Kim Novak ("Molly"), and from his drum kit? Sinatra proves he has some versatility as an actor here, and both Parker and Novak - alongside an un-nerving effort from Robert Strauss as his supplier "Schwiefka", makes this a far grittier, harder hitting drama than we might have expected. It shows us the relentlessness and hopelessness of his situation; also of the relative futility of the attempts at rehabilitation he went through in jail. It is too long, the first twenty minutes establish the characters, but at the expense of any decent pace - but once the ducks are in a row here, Otto Preminger elicits characterful performances from the cast that make this film quite realistic, and tough to watch at times.

Bit of a slow-moving picture, one that might've ended sooner, though I do class <em>'The Man with the Golden Arm'</em> as something rather quite good.

Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak keep events moving along with strong showings, Sinatra especially. Eleanor Parker is, though, the person onscreen that I appreciated most whilst watching, there's just something about her performance that puts her ahead of her co-stars; I'd even say she overacts in parts, yet it absolutely still worked for me.

The story does go round the houses a little, but even with that being the case it didn't actually affect my personal enjoyment all that much - it just totally could've been trimmed and we probably wouldn't have missed anything. Elsewhere, the score is excellent - especially the theme for when Frankie desires his habbits.

I'd have to be in the right mood to revisit this. Nonetheless, it do be a very good film from 1955 - ahead of its time, that's for sure.

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