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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569647466
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Running Time: 136 minutes
Sales Rank: 12093
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1958
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Product Description:
Dave Hirsch a writer and army veteran returns to 1948 Parkton Indiana his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French a local teacher. Dave must come to terms with his roots and with his future.Running Time: 137 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/CLASSICS UPC: 012569647466 Manufacturer No: 1000015049
Amazon.com essential video:
The first time Frank Sinatra acted in an adaptation of a James Jones novel, he won an Oscar--it was in From Here to Eternity. The resurgent Sinatra found one of his best subsequent roles as a bitter, boozy failed writer, the hero of Jones's Some Came Running. Returning to his hometown in the Midwest, he runs into the rampant hypocrisy of the 'good' life, as embodied by his insincere brother (Arthur Kennedy). Sinatra the cynic plumps for the company of a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) and a misogynist gambler (Dean Martin), while making a desperate bid for the affection of a strait-laced teacher (Martha Hyer). Director Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis) infuses the material with a slow-burning tension, and the climax at a carnival is an eye-filling piece of orchestrated chaos. Elmer Bernstein's moody score is another plus. Footnote to film history: the hero of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt says he wears his hat in the bathtub as an hommage to Dean Martin in Some Came Running. --Robert Horton
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Rating:  - No "From Here to Eternity", but Well-Crafted Drama...
"Some Came Running", based on author James Jones' follow-up to his masterpiece, "From Here to Eternity", was a conscious effort by MGM to recapture the lightning of the earlier film, particularly in casting Frank Sinatra (who'd won an Oscar for "Eternity"), in the lead, and assigning their best director, Vincente Minnelli, to helm the project. Unfortunately, "Running" was not in the same league as "Eternity", dramatically, but it is certainly a good film, made even better by two unusual casting choices, ... Read More
Rating: - Minnelli 'rex'
Glad to find commentary here addressing director Vincente Minelli's contributions. He was not only acclaimed fo his successful musicals in the 1940s and early 1950s ('Meet Me in St. Louis,' 1944; 'An American in Paris,' 1951; 'The Band Wagon,' 1953; 'Brigadoon,' 1954) but also for dramas in the 1950s ('The Bad and the Beautiful' 1952; 'Lust for Life,' 1956; 'Tea and Sympathy,' 1956).
After the musicals that were his forté fell out of favor with audiences around the time of his Oscar winning ... Read More
Rating:  - Good movie to watch
Who would think that small town life is boring? Not if you watched this film. Frank Sinatra plays this soldier who comes home from WW2. Somewhere along the way, he hooks up with Shirley McClaine, who follows him, but she has some unwelcome company of her own following her. He meets up with his brother, who is a successful owner of a jewelry store and into his assistant because his social climbing wife is too busy being preoccupied with being a pillar of the community, and the daughter getting caught up in ... Read More
Rating: - I'D GO RUNNING FOR THE DVD
SOME CAME RUNNING is a recent DVD release of the 1958 movie version of the same name and itself was based on the book SOME CAME RUNNING, authored by no other than James (FROM HERE TO ETERNITY) Jones.
This film is set in fictional Parkman, Indiana, in the late 1940's. Dave Hirsch (Frank Sinatra) is the vet-turned-drifter who comes to his home town for a breather -- but gets sucked into provincial hypocrisy before he can claw his way out. A star turn by Sinatra all the way.
The ... Read More
Rating: - Shirley MacLaine was robbed!
I am one of many here who's main interest in this film is from the fact that I am from the town where it was filmed. That being said, It is a great movie. Shirley MacLaine should have gotten the oscar, at least she was nominated. The movie at first look seems like a typical 1950's B movie melodrama and it is, but there is much more to it. Hang in there till about two thirds in and you will see Sinatra, Martin and Maclaine at their best ever. The DVD looks good and it took a long time for them to get this out. ... Read More
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