---
title: 'The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Otto Preminger'
released: '1955-12-15'
runtime_minutes: 119
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-man-with-the-golden-arm-1955'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048347/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

1955 · 119 min · Drama · United States


## 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Producer:** [Otto Preminger](https://cinepixo.com/people/otto-preminger)
- **Screenplay:** [Ben Hecht](https://cinepixo.com/people/ben-hecht), [Walter Newman](https://cinepixo.com/people/walter-newman), [Lewis Meltzer](https://cinepixo.com/people/lewis-meltzer)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Elmer Bernstein](https://cinepixo.com/people/elmer-bernstein)
- **Director of Photography:** [Sam Leavitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-leavitt)
- **Editor:** [Louis R. Loeffler](https://cinepixo.com/people/louis-r-loeffler)

## Cast

- [Frank Richards](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-richards)
- [Eleanor Parker](https://cinepixo.com/people/eleanor-parker)
- [Robert Strauss](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-strauss)
- [Frank Mills](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-mills)
- [Frank Marlowe](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-marlowe)
- [Gordon Mitchell](https://cinepixo.com/people/gordon-mitchell)
- [Will Wright](https://cinepixo.com/people/will-wright)
- [Arnold Stang](https://cinepixo.com/people/arnold-stang)
- [Frank Sinatra](https://cinepixo.com/people/frank-sinatra) as Frankie Machine
- [Emile Meyer](https://cinepixo.com/people/emile-meyer)
- [George Mathews](https://cinepixo.com/people/george-mathews)
- [Martha Wentworth](https://cinepixo.com/people/martha-wentworth)
- [Snub Pollard](https://cinepixo.com/people/snub-pollard)
- [Kim Novak](https://cinepixo.com/people/kim-novak)
- [Darren McGavin](https://cinepixo.com/people/darren-mcgavin)

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