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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.
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 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, after a failed writing career.
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) returns home after being gone for years. His brother (Arthur Kennedy) wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English...
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Some Came Running (1959) -- (Movie Clip) Make Your Own Limit Back in his home town and losing interest in local society, de-mobbed soldier Dave (Frank Sinatra) bonds with new pal Bama (Dean Martin) over poker, in Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running, 1959.
Summaries. A veteran returns home to deal with family secrets and small-town scandals. In the post-war, the alcoholic and bitter veteran military and former writer Dave Hirsch returns from Chicago to his hometown Parkman, Indiana.
Some Came Running. Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine and Dean Martin star in this powerful drama about the challenges facing a veteran when he returns home to deal with family secrets and town scandals. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
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.
Whatever the film’s dramatic shortcomings, Some Came Running is a captivating visual exercise. But, is this enough? What does this kind of set or effect-oriented filmmaking mean? What kind of “visual culture” does it belong to? These are all questions pretty relevant to our current film scene.
Academy Award winners Frank Sinatra and Shirley Maclaine star in this taut drama of a World War II veteran whose return to his Indiana hometown catalyzes change among people whose failures and frustrations have built up the point of explosion in Some Came Running.
