The Man With the Golden Arm

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David S @Kzoostag 6d Great film. Powerful and often difficult to watch, but a compelling story, well-written and well-acted. See more Justin S @RT05890335 09/02/2025 I enjoyed The Man With The Golden Arm. I really felt for the main character in the film. See more Russ G @RT78760655 01/08/2025 Miss Novak smolders as the eye candy and it was probably controversial in the day for its depiction of drug addiction, but take out the Frankie-Goes-Cold-Turkey scene and there really isn't much here. See more r96 s @RT00952237 05/29/2024 Bit of a slow-moving picture, one that might've ended sooner, though I do class 'The Man with the Golden Arm' 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. See more Leaburn @RT35452347 01/08/2023 This film was average 🤏 See more SICKS6SIX @sicks6six 06/13/2022 This must be Frank Sinatras best film ever, easily, He plays the junkie scenes like he knows all about it, he did know junkies and must have seen them go through withdrawals (cold turkey) the script is good with sub-plots from many fine actors, I've just watched the colourized version and if was dated 1965 I would not be surprised, for the time it was made 1955 it was ahead of its time in the way it portrayed his addiction, if you have not seen this film and are going to watch it be ready for a surprise, no singing or dancing from Frank, its gritty and dirty, New York of the 1950s was a dirty stinking hole, and it's well shown in this film, no glitzy nightclubs, just blues bars and card schools in run down tenement buildings, Tough cops and tough hoods, it has twist at the end that you don't see coming, there are no happy endings for anyone, It's as near to real life as Hollywood could film it at the time, There is a scene when Frank has drugs but no way of taking them, like having a cigarette but no light for it, desperation and despair, I don't know if anyone won any Academy Awards for this film, but they should have. See more Read all reviews

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