The Man with the Golden Arm

1955

Crime / Drama / Romance

8
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 81% · 58 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 83% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.3/10 10 13571 13.6K

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Plot summary

When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.

Director

Otto Preminger Photo
Otto Preminger

Top cast

Frank Mills Photo
Frank Mills as Street Vagrant
Robert Strauss Photo
Robert Strauss as Schwiefka
Gordon Mitchell Photo
Gordon Mitchell as Police Officer
Jeffrey Sayre Photo
Jeffrey Sayre as Club Safari Patron
720p.BLU
1.07 GB
1280*742
English 2.0
TV-14
us  
24 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by r96sk 8 / 10

Bit of a slow-moving picture, one that might've

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.
Reviewed by CinemaSerf 7 / 10

This story has quite a well trodden feel

This story has quite a well trodden feel to it. Frank Sinatra's "Frankie" is released from a stint in prison and heads straight back to the drug-infused melting pot from whence he came. Initially intent on staying clean, soon peer pressures and his struggle to survive, with his high-maintenance wife "Zosh" (Eleanor Parker) have him back at square one. It might just be that his salvation can come from his lover, the excellent Kim Novak ("Molly"), and from his drum kit? Sinatra proves he has some versatility as an actor here, and both Parker and Novak - alongside an un-nerving effort from Robert Strauss as his supplier "Schwiefka", makes this a far grittier, harder hitting drama than we might have expected. It shows us the relentlessness and hopelessness of his situation; also of the relative futility of the attempts at rehabilitation he went through in jail. It is too long, the first twenty minutes establish the characters, but at the expense of any decent pace - but once the ducks are in a row here, Otto Preminger elicits characterful performances from the cast that make this film quite realistic, and tough to watch at times.
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