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The Man with the Golden Arm

1955 | 119 min | Drama

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Synopsis

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. Starring Frank Sinatra, Eleanor Parker, Kim Novak, Arnold Stang and Darren McGavin, it recounts 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", although in Algren's book it is morphine. The film's initial release was controversial for its treatment of the then-taboo subject of drug addiction.

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Poster by Saul Bass (Public domain).

Credits

Producer
Otto Preminger
Director
Otto Preminger
Screenplay
Ben Hecht, Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer
Director of Photography
Sam Leavitt
Original Music Composer
Elmer Bernstein
Editor
Louis R. Loeffler
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Cast · 20

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Frank Richards

Eleanor Parker

Eleanor Parker

Robert Strauss

Robert Strauss

Frank Mills

Frank Mills

Frank Marlowe

Frank Marlowe

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