Rent The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
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- Synopsis:
- Having just served a prison term for possession of heroin, poker dealer Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) vows to stay clean and find success as a jazz drummer. His wife (Eleanor Parker), left disabled by a car crash, is equally determined he should remain in the lucrative gambling business. Pressurised by his wife after being asked to deal in a high-stakes game, Frankie's fear of failure leads him straight back to the nearest fix...
- Actors:
- 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, Jered Barclay, Leonard Bremen, Paul E. Burns, Pete Candoli, Herschel Graham, Harold 'Tommy' Hart, Mike Lally, Shelly Manne
- Directors:
- Otto Preminger
- Producers:
- Otto Preminger
- Writers:
- Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer, Nelson Algren, Ben Hecht
- Others:
- Elmer Bernstein, Darrell Silvera, Joseph C. Wright
- Studio:
- Elstree Hill Entertainment
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama, Romance
- Collections:
- Brando: A Centenary Celebration, Cinema Paradiso's 2022 Centenary Club, People of the Pictures, A Brief History of Film..., Top 10 Best Last Films: World Cinema, Top Films
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 22/06/2015
- Run Time:
- 119 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 1.0
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.66:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- Image Gallery
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Reviews (1) of The Man with the Golden Arm
Downbeat - The Man with the Golden Arm review by CH
A narrow partition divides the raw from the melodramatic. Slip the wrong way and a film can rattle as much as a studio set. The Man with the Golden Arm, which was filmed in Hollywood rather than the Chicago of Nelson Algren's novel, does not entirely escape this. It depicts a drug addict (Sinatra) who is fresh from gaol and clean awhile before again caught in criminal, card-dealing circles while his attentions are given to women, Kim Novak and Eleanor Parker) neither of whom leads a blameless existence. Along with a roster of sharpsters and those with an eye on the main chance (including Woody Allen lookalike Arnold Stang), Sinatra's is a torrid existence well drawn by that variable director Preminger as the jazz score (including a classic scene of Sinatra's drumming) echoes across scenes in many a boarding-house room.