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Some Came Running. (film) Some Came Running is a 1958 American drama film directed by Vincente Minnelli and starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine, based on the 1957 novel of the same name by James Jones. Set in 1948, it tells the story of a troubled Army veteran and author who returns to his Midwestern home town after 16 ...
Some Came Running: Directed by Vincente Minnelli. With Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer. A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals.
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- Drama, Romance
- Vincente Minnelli
- 1958-12-25
Some Came Running is pure melodrama, a clash of moral flaws, social graces, and personal affections (like Sinatra's superficially rough-cut but upright Dave vs. Kennedy's prim yet unfaithful Frank ...
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- Frank Sinatra
- Vincente Minnelli
- Drama
The Pistol (1959) Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1958. It was Jones's second published novel, following his award-winning debut From Here to Eternity. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Illinois, [2] after a failed writing career.
His fee for Some Came Running and two other Metro films was a then-astounding $400,000 against ten-percent of the gross profits. Vincente Minnelli had just returned from shooting The Reluctant Debutante (1958) when MGM offered him Some Came Running to direct. For Minnelli, it was a wonderful opportunity to explore small-town life in America and ...
In 1946, returning serviceman Dave Hirsh awakens with a hangover on a bus in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, in the company of Chicago trollop, Ginny Moorhead. To Ginny's disappointment, Dave takes leave of her and checks in to a hotel alone. A writer before the war, Dave has been away from Parkman for sixteen years, but is recognized by the ...
Academy Award and Golden Globe-winner and Emmy-nominee Frank Sinatra ("Ocean's Eleven," "Pal Joey"), Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Shirley MacL...
