The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was the 1956 Nominee for three Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Frank Sinatra, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, having seen this one, I am now at 801 features checked on this NYT 1,000 site, and you find thousands of notes on films from this an other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, if you prefer it that way

 

The Man With The Golden Arm by Nelson Algren was the 1956 Nominee for three Oscars, including for Best Actor in a Leading Role for Frank Sinatra, it is also one of The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made, having seen this one, I am now at 801 features checked on this NYT 1,000 site, and you find thousands of notes on films from this an other pages on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel, if you prefer it that way

 

7 out of 10

 

I have not been impressed by The Man With The Golden Arm, The Tender Trap https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-tender-trap-by-max-shulman-and.html is another Sinatra vehicle I have seen recently and neither finds a place on my list of Top 500, not even The Best 2,000 or more

 

‘to be honest’ – we have learned in some AT&T training that one should not use something like that, because it makes it look as if in the other situations you are not telling the truth – this is a biased take, they all are, for that matter, for I clearly dislike Frank Sinatra, associated as he was with The Mob, a friend of the gangsters

Indeed, I was thinking when watching this that he may have been better cast as Schwiefka or the other Good Fella, considering his status in personal life, then there is The Kid Stays in The Picture https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-kid-stays-in-picture-by-robert-evans.html a book by Robert Evans

 

Evans was an actor, producer and head of Paramount, the studio that has recently acquired Warner, after the bidding battle with Netflix – it seems that the Ellison family will steer the news so that they will be favorable to their friend, Orange American Psycho – Robert Evans produced Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby, The Godfather

He has this story about Frank Sinatra, who was married to Mia Farrow – what a fantastic change, from Sinatra, to his opposite, Woody Allen, they are both somewhat vile, apparently, well, one of them has been, for he is no more – when she was filming Rosemary’s Baby https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/06/rosemarys-baby-by-ira-levin-10-out-of-10.html directed by Roman Polansky

 

Frank Sinatra was a bully and he summoned Mia Farrow, telling her to stop the acting, and she refused, and at the end of the production, she asked Robert Evans – if we are to believe him – to take an ad in the newspapers, with the box office of Rosemary’s Baby (huge success) on one page, and the sales for the Sinatra movie on the other, opposite page, the latter had been a flop, the feature he had made at the same time

Sinatra is The Man With The Golden Arm, the Dealer aka Frankie Machine, he is good in card games, but he is also an addict, he comes out of prison, and he is trapped between two women, one of them is the famous Kim Novak – she was fabulous in Vertigo https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/10/vertigo-based-on-novel-dentre-les-morts.html

Frankie Machine tries to do the right thing – only making me think of the allegiance of the thespian, Sinatra, in bed with the mafiosi – but the scoundrels try to take advantage of him, speculating his weakness, lack of money, the hero may succeed, and some of the narrative is compelling, except I do not find the lead actor convincing

 

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