Some Came Running
Summary:
After the success of From Here to Eternity, pairing Frank Sinatra with another James Jones novel made perfect sense. Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds himself aboard a bus for his Indiana hometown of Parktown, with recent acquain... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Frank Sinatra - (Dave Hirsh)
Dean Martin - (Bama Dillert)
Shirley MacLaine - (Ginny Moorhead)
Martha Hyer - (Gwen French)
Arthur Kennedy - (Frank Hirsh)
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Review:
Inhibited by its era from playing out the messy relationships of James Jones' novel in all their explicitness, director Vincente Minnelli finds a means of using this to his advantage in Some Came Running, constructing an unsettling melodrama of suggestion and understatement. Minnelli presents a post-war American Anytown that keeps its i... Continue >>
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