B000054OTA

096009020835

1955

1956-01-16

119

1h 59min

Nominated for 3 Oscars, 2 wins & 8 nominations total

Otto Preminger

Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer, Nelson Algren

Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Eleanor Parker

Otto Preminger

Elmer Bernstein

Sam Leavitt

Louis R. Loeffler

Joseph C. Wright

Darrell Silvera

Hazel Keats, Ben Lane, Helene Parrish, Bernard Ponedel, Jack Stone

Jack McEdward

James Engle, Horace Hough, Nat Holt Jr.

Saul Bass, Stanley Detlie, John B. Mansbridge

Jack Solomon

George Brown

Paul Baxley, Martha Crawford, Helen Thurston

James Almond, Albert Myers, Morris Rosen, Vaughn Wilkins, Eugene Kornman, Val O Malley, Robert Willoughby

Joe King, Mary Ann Nyberg, Adele Parmenter

Tony de Zarraga

Leon Birnbaum, Shorty Rogers, Shorty Rogers and His Giants, Elmer Bernstein, Arthur L. Frantz, Jack Hayes, Milt Holland, Shelly Manne, Leo Shuken, Fred Steiner, Albert Woodbury

Kathleen Fagan

Saul Bass, Otto Preminger, Max Slater, Tom Bailey, Jack Entratter, David Haft, Shelly Manne, Charles E. Miller, Frank Weatherwax, Rudd Weatherwax

Crime, Drama, Romance

Otto Preminger Films

USA

English

Passed

7.3

11296

63

The Man with the Golden Arm is a 1955 American drama film with elements of 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 , in contrast to Algren s book which named the drug as morphine. The film s initial release was controversial for its treatment of the then-taboo subject of drug addiction.

It was nominated for three Academy Awards: Sinatra for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Joseph C. Wright and Darrell Silvera for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White and Elmer Bernstein for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Sinatra was also nominated for best actor awards by the BAFTAs and The New York Film Critics. The film is in the public domain, and in 2020 was added into the National Film Registry.

$1,000,000 (estimated)

Incarceration,convict,conviction,old,neighborhood