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...with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren's tale of a hot dealer who deals himself a cold card: heroin. A painful, powerful story of human bondage, in which Frank Sinatra is unforgettable (see below...
...Great Britain decided to postpone for a year its ban on the manufacture of heroin, which was due to go into effect at year's end. British doctors-and M.P.'s of both parties-had fought the ban vehemently, insisting that heroin is needed for medical purposes, chiefly as a pain killer. The government acted after 70-year-old Laborite Lord Jowitt,† onetime (1945-51) Lord High Chancellor, raised a fine point in the House of Lords: although the government had the legal power to control the manufacture of heroin, did it have the right...
...with the Golden Arm (Otto Preminger; United Artists). All that glitters is not necessarily tin foil. In this picture the moviegoer is offered the prospect of a hoppy ending, in which the hero gets the heroin. The Johnston office, standing to the Production Code ("The illegal drug traffic and drug addiction must never be presented"), has stamped its official nix on the picture-the sort of thundering knock that usually brings a lightning boost at the box office. On the screen, however, the picture provides much more than the cheap thrill it promises. The hero is a man who gets...
Then he cajoled his wife, 21, into taking heroin or "horse" ("Why don't you try it just once and see what it's like?"). She did, and took to prostitution to get money for "H." Then she goaded her brother, 18, into the habit. In the last few days, testified the wife, she had been offered heroin three times while pushing her baby carriage on Manhattan's West 53rd Street...
...Those who found heroin or morphine pleasant were immature, impulsive, self-centered, anxious and hostile, and given to daydreaming or fantastic ambitions...