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The Man with the Golden Arm

The Man with the Golden Arm

1955
Approved
119 min
Crime Drama Romance

Plot Summary

Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.

7.3
IMDb Rating
81%
Rotten Tomatoes
63
Metacritic
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Ratings & Reviews

7.3
IMDb Rating
81%
Rotten Tomatoes
63
Metacritic

Technical Details

119 min
Runtime
16 Jan 1956
Release Date
Approved
Content Rating
Movie
Content Type
1955
Year
Genres
Crime Drama Romance

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User Reviews

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

7.0/10
Recent

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 ...

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r96sk

r96sk

8.0/10
Recent

Bit of a slow-moving picture, one that might've ended sooner, though I do class <em>'The Man with the Golden Arm'</em> 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...

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Technical Info
16 Jan 1956
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