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- But there's not-musical, and there's something as caustic and bitter in its not-musicality as Some Came Running, which I am tempted to call one of American cinema's first great masterpieces about the psychological dislocation of the war generation in the years following the war (it followed, by three years, an actual MGM musical on the same topic, the Comden & Green masterwork It's Always Fair Weather, directed by Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly); it is based on a massive novel by James Jones, the...
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Jul 13, 2014 · That are certain expectations that immediately present themselves in connection with a film made at MGM in 1958, starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, and directed by Vincente Minnelli, and not the least merit of Some Came Running is that it completely defies them. It's not a musical, for one thing, though that's a superficial way to start off.
Aug 30, 2013 · The reason for that is because, while it may not be a musical, Minnelli pumps Some Came Running with all the technical wizardry you would expect from one, making it as visually...
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.
Vincente Minnelli and Dean Martin worked together again just two years after Some Came Running, on the musical Bells Are Ringing (1960), co-starring Judy Holliday.
Some Came Running required from Bernstein not only a jazz score, but moments of musical Americana for high-minded drama involving life in small-town America. The film practically uses his music as a narrative device to illustrate the two "worlds" in which Sinatra walks: a "legit" orchestral sound for polite society, measured yet evocative, with ...
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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.
Some Came Running, American dramatic film, released in 1958, that was especially noted for the performances by Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin—in their first screen pairing—and Shirley MacLaine. The film follows Dave Hirsh (Sinatra), a famous writer who returns to his small hometown in Indiana after.
