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Some Came Running

Play trailer 3:51 Poster for Some Came Running 1958,  2h 17m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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82% Tomatometer 17 Reviews 76% Popcornmeter 500+ Ratings
Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) returns home after being gone for years. His brother (Arthur Kennedy) wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French (Martha Hyer). Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert (Dean Martin), a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead (Shirley MacLaine), an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) May 3, 2024
4/5
The genius of MacLaine’s performance is that she takes a character that is written, with deep misogyny, as comically ignorant and promiscuous and flips it around to make Ginny fearless and eccentric... Go to Full Review
Richard Brody The New Yorker Jun 5, 2023
Minnelli... revels in the alluring decorative artifices of small-town life, which nonetheless seethe with passions that shatter the surface of decorum. Go to Full Review
Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Mar 10, 2003
The hypocrisy, sexual repression, and backwater snobbery here is enough to make Peyton Place look like Vatican City. Go to Full Review
Moira Walsh The Catholic World Aug 24, 2023
I do not know whether or not James Jones’ censorable, over-length novel had an intelligible point of view. The partially disinfected screen version in any case occupies two hours and fifteen minutes displaying a total lack of one. Go to Full Review
Matt Brunson Film Frenzy Nov 21, 2021
4/4
A searing indictment of small-town hypocrisy. Shirley MacLaine's performance will break your heart. Go to Full Review
Yasser Medina Cinefilia May 12, 2021
5/10
As a melodrama, its premise about impossible love, family conflicts and war wounds is a bit inane, populated with a collage of flat characters that, apparently, are built on a cardboard surface. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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Finn L Feb 11, 2017 Heavily worded melodrama has some scenes that drag a little but the last 20-30 minutes offer up a sobering, downbeat conclusion. Frank Sinatra is not as memorable here as say 'The Man With the Golden Arm' or 'From Here To Eternity' but does have some chemistry with Shirley MacLaine's sweet-as-pie floozy. See more
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Cast & Crew

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Vincente Minnelli

Director

Frank Sinatra

Dave Hirsh

Dean Martin

Bama Dillert

Shirley MacLaine

Ginny Moorhead

Martha Hyer

Gwen French

Arthur Kennedy

Frank Hirsh

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Synopsis Hard-drinking novelist Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra) returns home after being gone for years. His brother (Arthur Kennedy) wants Dave to settle down, and introduces him to English teacher Gwen French (Martha Hyer). Moody Dave resents his brother, and spends his days hanging out with Bama Dillert (Dean Martin), a professional gambler who parties late into the night. Torn between the admiring Gwen and Ginny Morehead (Shirley MacLaine), an easy woman who loves him, Dave grows increasingly angry.
Director
Vincente Minnelli
Producer
Sol C. Siegel
Screenwriter
John Patrick, Athur Sheekman
Distributor
MGM/UA Home Entertainment Inc., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp.
Production Co
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 18, 1958, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2009
Runtime
2h 17m
Sound Mix
Mono
Aspect Ratio
35mm, Scope (2.35:1)
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