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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0090328901486
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Passion Productions
Manufacturer: Passion Productions
Number Of Items: 1
Publication Date: 1955
Publisher: Passion Productions
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 86263
Studio: Passion Productions
Theatrical Release Date: 1955
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Frank Sinatra classic..skilled card player and former heroin addict returns from jail finding it hard to find a new livelyhood.
Amazon.com essential video:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - THIS IS 'THE' COPY TO GET! BEWARE PUBLIC DOMAIN VERSIONS!
As other reviews have focused on this fine ***** star movie, I'd like to just make a comment about THIS version. It's been a long time coming to finally get this pristine version on DVD. Not since the final days of LaserDisc when Warner's finally released a near perfect transfer of this movie, have I been waiting for them to do the same on DVD - and they did not disappoint (I tink it's actually the same transfer except this DVD is 1.85:1 and anamorphic wide screen - the original was academy ratio). ... Read More
Rating: - Heavy drama but good
I was too young to see this film first run and was happy to catch up to it. The story is grim, but it is fascinating. sinatra shows his acting skills again, interesting to see darrin mcgavin aainst type as a drug pusher. more drama than noir i would say. this film is excellent
Rating: - OTTO PREMINGER, OPUS 21
**** 1955. THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM was based on Nelson Algren's The Man with the Golden Arm: 50th anniversary critical edition and produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Three Academy awards nominations. A former heroin addict comes back home to become a drummer in a jazz orchestra but, after a few disenchantments, he starts to take heroin again. The choice of a contentious theme, a hero with weaknesses, a woman who reminds us of the dangerous heroin of Angel Face are unmistakably trademarks of ... Read More
Rating: - Down Those Mean Streets
Part of this review was used to review Nelson Algren's book of the same name and on which the film was based.
Growing up in a post World War II built housing project this reviewer knew first hand the so-called `romance' of drugs, the gun, the ne'er do well hustler and the mechanisms one needed to develop to survive at that place where the urban working poor meet and mix with the lumpen proletariat- the con men, dopesters, grifters drifters and gamblers who feed on the downtrodden. ... Read More
Rating:  - The Horrors of Addiction
This B&W film begins in an urban area in the 1950s ("Hot Dogs 10 cents") that seems like a Hollywood setting. Frankie gets off the bus and steps into a beer joint. "The monkey is gone", he has been in Lexington and kicked the habit. Frankie has big plans for his future. His wife welcomes him back. $50 a month goes a long way. Frankie must break with his past as a card dealer to keep straight. His wife Zosche wants more time with him. Frankie turns down his old job as a card dealer, but the police ... Read More
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