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starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedydirected by: Vincente Minnelli
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302682632
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6302682630
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 6033
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: December 18, 1958
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The first time Frank Sinatra acted in an adaptation of a James Jones novel, he won an Oscar--it was in From Here to Eternity. The resurgent Sinatra found one of his best subsequent roles as a bitter, boozy failed writer, the hero of Jones's Some Came Running. Returning to his hometown in the Midwest, he runs into the rampant hypocrisy of the 'good' life, as embodied by his insincere brother (Arthur Kennedy). Sinatra the cynic plumps for the company of a floozy (Shirley MacLaine) and a misogynist gambler (Dean Martin), while making a desperate bid for the affection of a strait-laced teacher (Martha Hyer). Director Vincente Minnelli (Meet Me in St. Louis) infuses the material with a slow-burning tension, and the climax at a carnival is an eye-filling piece of orchestrated chaos. Elmer Bernstein's moody score is another plus. Footnote to film history: the hero of Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt says he wears his hat in the bathtub as an hommage to Dean Martin in Some Came Running. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not a Complete Work of Art
Wide Screen Color Bonanaza, Vincente Minnelli, Judy's hubby, known for lavish Hollywood Musicals, does a very theatrical late 1950's melodrama, almost Douglas Sirk like. Oh, the repressed sexuality and hypocracy. It's not a 50's Hitchcock masterpiece like Vertigo or To Catch a Thief, but the film's from a pot-boiler James Jones novel, takes itself pretty seriously, slicing away that exotic Indiana underbelly with Shirley MacLaine doin the cupie doll stereotype. Arthur Kennedy does not look like Frank ... Read More
Rating:  - Some Came Running
Some Came Running
In 1958 I was 16 years old and on a Tom Sawyer-Huck Finn trip down the Ohio River with a buddy in a little 16' boat, and we just happened to stop in Madison, Indiana where MGM was filming Some Came Running with Sinatra, Martin and MacLaine. It's typical 1950's melodrama--nothing spectacular, except for one thing--Shirley MacLaine's performance as a good-hearted, wrong-side-of-the-tracks bimbo. Spectacular! It makes the whole movie worth watching--especially the ending, which ... Read More
Rating: - No "From Here to Eternity", but Well-Crafted Drama...
"Some Came Running", based on author James Jones' follow-up to his masterpiece, "From Here to Eternity", was a conscious effort by MGM to recapture the lightning of the earlier film, particularly in casting Frank Sinatra (who'd won an Oscar for "Eternity"), in the lead, and assigning their best director, Vincente Minnelli, to helm the project. Unfortunately, "Running" was not in the same league as "Eternity", dramatically, but it is certainly a good film, made even better by two unusual casting choices, ... Read More
Rating: - Minnelli 'rex'
Glad to find commentary here addressing director Vincente Minelli's contributions. He was not only acclaimed fo his successful musicals in the 1940s and early 1950s ('Meet Me in St. Louis,' 1944; 'An American in Paris,' 1951; 'The Band Wagon,' 1953; 'Brigadoon,' 1954) but also for dramas in the 1950s ('The Bad and the Beautiful' 1952; 'Lust for Life,' 1956; 'Tea and Sympathy,' 1956).
After the musicals that were his forté fell out of favor with audiences around the time of his Oscar winning ... Read More
Rating:  - Good movie to watch
Who would think that small town life is boring? Not if you watched this film. Frank Sinatra plays this soldier who comes home from WW2. Somewhere along the way, he hooks up with Shirley McClaine, who follows him, but she has some unwelcome company of her own following her. He meets up with his brother, who is a successful owner of a jewelry store and into his assistant because his social climbing wife is too busy being preoccupied with being a pillar of the community, and the daughter getting caught up in ... Read More
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