Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.... (Full plot summary below)
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Frankie Machine is a skilled card dealer and one-time heroin addict. When he returns home from jail, he struggles to find a new livelihood and to avoid slipping back into addiction.
Leave your thoughts about The Man with the Golden Arm.
| Sarasota Herald-TribuneChristopher LloydThe film's reputation hasn't endured like some other mid-century depictions of addiction, like The Lost Weekend. But it's a terrific look at descent and despair, the sort of movie that can end on a sour note but still seem hopeful. |
| LarsenOnFilmJosh LarsenDirector Otto Preminger emphasizes the lurid whenever he can – the neon signs, the smoky interiors, the insinuating bass on the soundtrack – so that the movie plays like a blurry, bleary night-on-its-way-to-morning. Only Sinatra’s talent is clear. |
| DVDTalk.comScott WeinbergA brave and well-constructed piece of old-time movie-making, and the thing more than holds up today. |
| Entertainment WeeklyTim PurtellThough director Otto Preminger’s decision to use an RKO set instead of Chicago locations initially jars, he makes it work, amping up the claustrophobic tension in beautifully choreographed long takes. |
| The SkinnyLewis PorteousAn unflinchingly humane work of enormous importance. |
| The New RepublicDelmore SchwartzThe film is a pretty good picture show, as we used to say, but anyone who has read Nelson Algren’s wonderfully poetic novel is likely to make invidious comparisons and be otherwise distracted, particularly when the film strives to narrow itself to a problem of drug addiction. |
| The New YorkerPauline KaelThe tension is intriguing and expressive (perhaps this is what Beineix had in mind for The Moon in the Gutter), though the unstable mixture is clearly limited as a sustainable style. |
| culturevulture.netPhil FreemanProves that drug stories aren't exclusively the territory of hip, nihilistic '90s film-school wunderkinder. |
| VarietyVariety StaffA gripping, fascinating film, expertly produced and directed and performed with marked conviction by Frank Sinatra as the drug slave. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzIt's a film that had a monkey on its back. |
