Synopsis

In 1958’s SOME CAME RUNNING, Sinatra delivers another of his most memorable performances as Dave Hirsh, a down-on-his-luck, recently discharged WWII veteran. His writing career gone awry, the hard-drinking Hirsh has a one-way bus ticket back to the last place he wants to go – his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, which he hasn’t seen in a decade. Hirsh’s arrival brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in a character-driven drama that features Shirley MacLaine in a breakthrough, Oscar-nominated performance as good-time girl Ginny Moorehead.  

Cast & Crew

SOME CAME RUNNING
Directed by Vincente Minelli
Produced by Sol C. Siegel
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, Martha Hyer, Arthur Kennedy, Nancy Gates, Leora Dana
Screenplay by John Patrick and Arthur Sheekman
Based on the novel James Jones
Original music by Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography by William H. Daniels
Editing by Adrienne Fazan

Description

Color
136 minutes

“Frank Sinatra is downright fascinating — or what the youngsters would probably call ‘cool’ —as a lonely and skeptical Army corporal who returns to his home town in Indiana a few years after World War II.”
- Bosley Crowther, original 1958 New York Times review

The first time that Frank Sinatra appeared in a film based on a book by the novelist James Jones, it was in 1953’s From Here To Eternity, which earned him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar. In 1958’s SOME CAME RUNNING, the Vincente Minelli-directed adaptation of Jones’ subsequent book, Sinatra delivers another of his most memorable performances as Dave Hirsh, a down-on-his-luck, recently discharged WWII veteran. His writing career gone awry, the hard-drinking Hirsh has a one-way bus ticket back to the last place he wants to go – his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, which he hasn’t seen in a decade.

Hirsh’s arrival brings small-town hypocrisy to the unforgiving light of day in a character-driven drama that features Shirley MacLaine in a breakthrough, Oscar-nominated performance as good-time girl Ginny Moorehead. The film also marks Sinatra’s first onscreen pairing with Dean Martin, in a scene-stealing role as card shark Bama Dillert. A favorite of Sinatra’s, the film was screened regularly for his guests in later years.

Warner Home Video’s DVD release of SOME CAME RUNNING as part of the Frank Sinatra Collection presents bonus features including: the featurette The Story Of Some Came Running; the original theatrical trailer; and subtitles in English, French and Portuguese.