Directed by:
Otto PremingerCinematography:
Sam LeavittComposer:
Elmer BernsteinCast:
Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Robert Strauss, John Conte, George E. Stone, Gordon Mitchell, Leonard Bremen (more)VOD (2)
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Having just served a prison term for possession of heroin, poker dealer Frankie Machine vows to stay clean and find success as a jazz drummer. His wife, 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. (Network)
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Due to its altogether conciliatory ending, The Man with a Golden Arm is a much less drastic look beneath the surface of the post-war American idyll than that offered by the initial films of the New York-based New American Cinema Group (Clarke, Cassavetes), but it is still an impressive and historically significant “film about a problem”. Among other things, the film’s release without PCA approval brought about the first revision of the Production Code in decades and, from 1956 onwards, Hollywood productions were newly allowed to depict narcotics (to a limited extent), for example. 80%
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