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)Plots(1)
A professional card dealer returns to Chicago after rehab for heroin addiction. But his overpowering wife, his old street buddies, and the allure of a 'B-girl', coupled with his real dream to become a jazz drummer bring him back to the needle. His life starts to self-destruct again and he makes one last ditch effort to kick the habit. (official distributor synopsis)
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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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