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...with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren's tale of a hot dealer who deals himself a cold card: heroin. A powerful story in which Frank Sinatra is unforgettable (TIME...
This man with the monkey of addiction is Frankie Machine, a professional poker dealer who, in a federal institution, has already won a partial victory over the habit. When he comes home, however, his determination to leave the cards and the heroin and to find a job as a drummer soon breaks again. In just a few days, a lying and rapacious wife, a preying dope peddler, and his own weakness send Frankie screaming to a locked room, to break the habit once more...
...With the Golden Arm is Frank Sinatra, but the swooning in the picture has nothing to do with singing. Happy dust fills the air as an absorbed audience watches the hero get his, but not in the end. Eleanor Parker and Kim Novak gradually displace the heroin; as a result, Robert Benchley finds himself unable to sleep in a short at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren's tale of a hot dealer who deals himself a cold card: heroin. A powerful story in which Frank Sinatra is unforgettable (TIME...
...with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren's tale of a hot dealer who deals himself a cold card: heroin. A painful, powerful story in which Frank Sinatra is unforgettable (TIME...