Some Came Running

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«The Rat Pack makes its first appearance on the big screen in this adaptation of James Jones' novel about the disillusionment of the post-war era – in a small town in Indiana. Frank Sinatra plays the veteran Dave Hirsh, who returns to his sleepy hometown on the Ohio River, where he finds himself torn between the bourgeois world of his brother, a jeweler, and his lover, a teacher, and the party life on the other side of the tracks, dominated by the easy-going gambler Alabama (Dean Martin) and Ginny (Shirley MacLaine) – that loving lady from the lower class who has followed Dave from Chicago (…). One of the greatest American films of the 1950s.» (Metrograph) «When I was 23, I accidentally stumbled into a university screening of Vincente Minnelli's Some Came Running (…). The film has profoundly influenced me (…). Every time I watch it, I think anew about these characters. It's like Citizen Kane – every time you see it, it's a different film.» (Richard Linklater, The Guardian) Contributors and additional information: Director: Vincente Minnelli Screenplay: John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman Author: James Jones Cinematography: William Daniels Music: Elmer Bernstein, James Van Heusen (Song) Editing: Adrienne Fazan Cast: Shirley MacLaine (Ginny Moorhead), Frank Sinatra (Dave Hirsh), Dean Martin (Bama Dillert), Martha Hyer (Gwen French), Arthur Kennedy (Frank Hirsh), Nancy Gates (Edith Barclay), Leora Dana (Agnes Hirsh), Larry Gates (Prof. French), Steven Peck (Raymond Lanchak)