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The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American independent drama film noir directed by Otto Preminger, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren.
A crime drama film starring Frank Sinatra as a former heroin addict and card dealer. Based on Nelson Algren's novel, the film explores the themes of addiction, repression, lust and jazz in a stylized and expressionistic way.
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- Crime, Drama, Romance
- Otto Preminger
- 1956-01-16
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine (Frank Sinatra) gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get...
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- Frank Sinatra
- Otto Preminger
- Drama
Feb 11, 2022 · A junkie must face his true self to kick his drug addiction. Directed by Otto Preminger. Written by Nelson Algren (novel), Walter Newman (screenplay) and Lewis Meltzer...
- 119 min
- 13.4K
- Classic Movie Trailers
The Man with the Golden Arm is a novel by Nelson Algren, published by Doubleday in November 1949. One of the seminal novels of post-World War II American letters, The Man with the Golden Arm is widely considered Algren's greatest and most enduring work. It won the National Book Award in 1950.
- Nelson Algren
- 1949
The Man with the Golden Arm, American film drama, released in 1955, that broke new ground with its realistic look at the life of a heroin addict. The film was based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren and starred Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine, a struggling addict who gets clean while.
In the late 1940s, Frankie Majcinek (Frank Sinatra), who is known as Frankie Machine, returns to Chicago's South Side, which is mostly inhabited by Polish Americans, after serving a six-month sentence at a federal narcotics hospital.
