The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
Directed by Otto Preminger
“An 'untouchable' theme… an unusual motion picture!”
Drama, Crime · 1h 59m
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides to straighten up. Armed with nothing but an old drum set, Frankie tries to get honest work as a drummer. But when his former employer and his old drug dealer re-enter his life, Frankie finds it hard to stay clean and eventually finds himself succumbing to his old habits.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Otto Preminger
- Screenplay
- Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer
- Novel
- Nelson Algren
- Director of Photography
- Sam Leavitt
- Original Music Composer
- Elmer Bernstein
- Editor
- Louis R. Loeffler
- Producer
- Otto Preminger
Details
- Release date
- 1955-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- Genres
- Drama, Crime
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Carlyle Productions
- Budget
- $1,000,000
- Box office
- $4,350,000
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