Patricia Abbott (pattinase): My Favorite Frank Sinatra movie: SOME CAME RUNNING

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

My Favorite Frank Sinatra movie: SOME CAME RUNNING

Frank was never better than when he was cynical, a little mean, and ultimately the wounded warrior. Shirley acted up a storm in this one too. Great stuff.

What's yours?

17 comments:

George said...: I'm with you on SOME CAME RUNNING. Sinatra was at the top of his game in this one!; 7:37 AM
Sergio (Tipping My Fedora) said...: I do like this film despite its remarkably dated sexual politics. I think my favourite Sinatra performance is probably to be found in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; 7:53 AM
mybillcrider said...: Definitely one of my faves, and I did an Overlooked Movies post on it a while back. Dean's great, too.; 8:13 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Dean is great.; 9:01 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: I doubt Sinatra was ever in a film with progressive sexual politics, Sergio. It probably veers between awful and frightening.; 9:20 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...: I like this and THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE too. Also SUDDENLY, which is definitely ripe for a Forgotten Movies post.

Interesting that so far no one has mentioned his Oscar-winning role in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.; 9:30 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: SUDDENLY is excellent. I guess I think of FHTE as more Lancaster and Kerr.; 9:48 AM
Jeff Meyerson said...: Me too. I'd read about SUDDENLY but when I saw it (in the 80's) was still surprised at how good, and timely, it seemed.; 9:51 AM
Joe said...: Even though there are a bunch including Candidate, Man with the Golden Arm & Eternity, I have a soft spot for The Joker Is Wild, the story of nightclub performer Joe E. Lewis. Lewis was a friend of Sinatra and this was a passion project for Frank. It also gives us All The Way and Chicago (Toddling Town). It plays to all Sinatra's strengths; 10:59 AM
Joe said...: Even though there are a bunch including Candidate, Man with the Golden Arm & Eternity, I have a soft spot for The Joker Is Wild, the story of nightclub performer Joe E. Lewis. Lewis was a friend of Sinatra and this was a passion project for Frank. It also gives us All The Way and Chicago (Toddling Town). It plays to all Sinatra's strengths; 10:59 AM
Charles Gramlich said...: Don't believe I've ever watched a Sinatra movie; 11:24 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Joe-Not sure I have ever seen that one.
Charles-I think we live in two different worlds sometimes.; 12:18 PM
Mathew Paust said...: MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, hands down, for me, too. He was good in a different way in his comeback role, which revived his dying career, as Maggio in FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. As I recall, SUDDENLY, was redone years later as DESPERATE HOURS, with Bogie in the Sinatra role. No way could Sinatra ever top Bogart.; 5:47 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...: Suddenly is a different one about a guy waiting to assassinate someone on a train coming through a small town.; 6:20 PM
Barry Ergang said...: THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM is another excellent Sinatra performance.; 8:55 AM
pattinase (abbott) said...: I am fairly sure I have never seen it.; 9:04 AM
Elgin Bleecker said...: Yes, “Some Came Running” is a good movie, and quite different from the book with Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine as the main characters. There are also moments in Sinatra films, just a few minutes, that are great in not-so-great movies, for instance: The opening of “The Tender Trap,” when Sinatra as Sinatra walks toward the camera singing the title song; The Sinatra-Crosby duet in “High Society;" Dancing with Gene Kelly in “Anchors Away.”; 10:43 AM