The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm
by Otto Preminger

The Man with the Golden Arm
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Actor: Arnold Stang, Darren McGavin, Eleanor Parker, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak
Director: Otto Preminger
Brand: Warner Brothers
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Producer: Otto Preminger
Editor: Louis R. Loeffler
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Lewis Meltzer
Writer: Nelson Algren
Writer: Walter Newman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 119 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video

Movie Reviews of The Man with the Golden Arm

Movie Review: great condition, rare find!
Summary: 4 Stars

Good movie of Frank in his younger years. I looked at movie stores for years and could not find this anywhere except Amazon. Good movie to have in your collection if your a Freank Sinatra fan.

Summary of The Man with the Golden Arm

Drummer Frankie Machine is out of detox and eager to get on with a big band career. He's sure he's kicked his habit. But the habit kicks back. In The Man with the Golden Arm, Frank Sinatra gives a piercing, Academy Award?-nominated* portrayal many call his best. (The film's art direction and Elmer Bernstein's smoky jazz score also earned Oscar? nominations.) Pioneering moviemaker Otto Preminger directs this landmark that first defied Production Code taboos against on-screen depictions of drug abuse. A Hatful of Rain, The Panic in Needle Park, Clean and Sober, Drugstore Cowboy, Rush and Blow would offer later portraits of narcotic terror. But it all started with this harowing, grown-up film.
When Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) comes back to the old neighborhood after a spell in the big house, he wants to stay straight and become a drummer. But his old life--as a poker dealer and heroin addict--comes rushing back to meet him. The subject matter of Nelson Algren's novel was still shocking in 1955, and The Man with the Golden Arm was released without the seal of approval from Hollywood's Production Code. The director, Otto Preminger, used the controversy to whip up interest in the film, and his championing of non-Code pictures such as The Moon Is Blue and The Man with the Golden Arm helped end the influence of the restrictive policy. For Frank Sinatra, the role was a high point; his performance is searching, honest, and (in long scenes of going cold turkey to kick the habit) frighteningly naked. He's touchingly matched with Kim Novak, in one of her best performances; adding a bit of method-acting madness is Eleanor Parker as Frankie's hysterical wife. Sinatra was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar, but lost to Ernest Borgnine--the same guy who beat him senseless in From Here to Eternity. The propulsive jazz score is by Elmer Bernstein. Even the credits sequence staked out new territory: the mod images created by Saul Bass were among his first in a long-standing collaboration with Preminger, and were highly influential on other designers. --Robert Horton

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