The Man With the Golden Arm

Watching Sinatra act is kinda like watching Michael Jordan play baseball, he’s not bad but his talents are best suited for other things. He’s quite charismatic, though Brando who was up for this part would have taken this film to a new level. Still, the script and the…

Ethan Colburn

Sinatra e Novak num drama comandando pelas batidas do Jazz sobre um ex-condenado que tinha melhores companhia no presídio do que nas ruas do seu bairro. Otto Preminger escolhe entregar o grande plot twist no começo da trama e depois faz o seu protagonista navegar num mar…

Rodrigo Homsi

Adapted from the 1948 novel by Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm distinctly displays a memorable opening animated title sequence courtesy of graphic designer and Oscar-winning filmmaker Saul Bass. It embodies a provocativeness from its director Otto Preminger who…

Paul Elliott

There are parts of this that seem a little silly or a little pat now, and I'm not naive enough to think that they didn't seem so in 1955, but one thing that doesn't is Sinatra's lead performance, you see his every doubt and waver in his eyes and face, like blood in the…

Joe

I saw Man on Turner Classic Movies this morning; they had a marathon of Sinatra movies due to today being his birthday. It's a famous anti-drug screed from the past that had never been seen before now. While of course it being a product of 1950's Hollywood this is far less…

Blair Russell

“Everybody needs somebody. But you can do better than him.” frank sinatra carries this movie on the back of a towering performance dealing with the hard subject of addiction. it’s cut from the same cloth as beautiful boy. this was taboo for the times and really forward…

andy

I’d take heroin too if every time I went to take it an awesome jazz theme would play as I walk down a cool looking 50s Hollywood backlot street set with a billiards & bar joint right next to a strip club

JayShmoney

“Man with the Golden Arm” is a Casio watch made out of the parts of a Rolex.  “Golden Arm” is what would, in modern parlance, be deemed ‘Oscar bait.’ A roster of legends is is on its credit lines. Sinatra did thorough research with actual drug addicts to justly portray the…

theriverjordan

Impressive less for the mostly frank content, but by how heavy Preminger goes into twisting the whole world around Sinatra’s addict. It couldn’t be further from 50s Hollywood notions of realism. A grotesque space, a whole city there to dump on his need for the next fix,…

Filipe Furtado