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The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of film noir, based on the novel of the same name by Nelson Algren, which tells the story of a drug addict who gets clean while in prison, but struggles to stay that way in the outside world. Although the addictive drug is never identified in the film, according to the American Film Institute "most contemporary and modern sources assume that it is heroin", in contrast to Algren's book which named the drug as morphine.
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Title: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). Preminger's direction is great, some subtle camera work adds a lot to a number of scenes. Elmer Berstein's score. and Saul Bass' titles perfectly set the mood. Overall, an endearing film you should check out.
For its time, The Man with the Golden Arm’sexplicit depiction of heroin use was remarkable, as was its implicit expectation that the audience empathise with the user. In one fantastic sequence, Louie seduces Frankie back to the dark side at the local bar, and we are seduced along with him. A notable example of Preminger’s mastery over filmic space, his meticulous construction of the scene and the graceful back-and-forth camera movement between the self-satisfied Louie and jittery Frankie is enthralling. Rather than shooting on location, The Man with the Golden Arm’s Chicago slum was constructed on an RKO backlot. Depending on whether you believe Preminger or Algren, the decision to shoot The Man with the Golden Arm in the studio was either Preminger’s second choice, which he was forced to take to keep costs down (2), or it was an example of Preminger’s prejudice against the lower classes.
Release source: CD. Year: 1982. Discount: 20%. 00:00. 01. The Man With The Golden Thumb. 02. Love Is Muddy Water.
Otto Preminger (right) and Frank Sinatra on the set of The Man with the Golden Arm (1955). United Artists/The Kobal Collection. 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 prison. The movie’s riveting jazz score by Elmer Bernstein and striking graphics by Saul Bass-especially the latter’s animated paper cutout of a heroin addict’s arm in the opening sequence-were highly innovative and were influential in the movie industry. Studio: United Artists. Director and producer: Otto Preminger. Writers: Walter Newman and Lewis Meltzer. Music: Elmer Bernstein. Running time: 119 minutes.
A middling Bond film, The Man With the Golden Gun suffers from double entendre-laden dialogue, a noteworthy lack of gadgets, and a villain that overshadows 007. 44%. TOMATOMETER. He might see Bond as the biggest threat to his gold medal title but The Man with the Golden Gun's true usurper ends up to be a reliance on cheap carnival games, which is a great metaphor for this 007 tale as a whole. Bottom line: Knick Knack Paddy-Whacked. After the Connery films sadly took a bit of a tumble in quality towards the end, Roger Moore really picked the franchise back up with a few gems in my opinion, Live and Let Die and The Man With the Golden Gun. The latter took a slightly different approach to its villain.