Movie #3491 "The Man with the Golden Arm" (TCM) I have wanted to watch this for a long time -- heard a lot about this Frank Sinatra/Otto Preminger film, and I'm glad I watched it. The obviously manufactured set and drops used to set the story in a busy city with lots of drug stuff around, dates the movie, but boy it gets down and dirty when it comes to show the effects of "using." In fact, the Hayes Production would not clear this film when it first came out, so Preminger sent it out any way, with no Production okay (Hays went out of business shortly after) Sinatra was nominated for an Oscar for this (eventually won one for "From Here to Eternity"), and I thought he was pretty good (esp. in the scenes toward the end, but I felt the two women were even better --- Kim Novak and nice dance hall woman he is friends with, and Eleanor Parker, his wheel-chair bound wife (the story reveals he feels guilty and stays with her to care for her because he put her in there - car accident?) Film is brutal, clunky in parts, good acting, and great music (another Oscar nod) and very raw on the subject of drugs and drug dealing. Eye opening. I'd give it a 4 out of 5.
"THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM" 1955 1 hour and 59 mins (on prime video, TCM(
A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction.
Director: Otto Premiunger
Writers: Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer, Nelson Algren
Actors: Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker
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