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However, Dave is shown to be a good man despite his notorious reputation when he treats Ginny with kindness and takes a fatherly interest in his niece, Frank's daughter Dawn, who becomes upset and tries to run away when she sees her father in a lovers' lane with his secretary, Edith. Dave's new story that he wrote with Gwen's encouragement is published in The Atlantic magazine, and Gwen confesses her love to him by telephone while he is on a gambling trip out of town with Bama and Ginny.
Gwen's phone call leads the gamblers to think Dave is cheating at cards, triggering a fight in which Bama is stabbed. During his hospital stay, Bama is informed he has diabetes, but chooses to disregard medical advice, especially about his incessant drinking. Ginny visits Gwen at her school to ask if Gwen and Dave are in a relationship and confess her own love for Dave.
Gwen is horrified to discover Dave has been seeing Ginny, assures Ginny that there is nothing between her and Dave, and then cuts Dave off. Dave, at the end of his rope from Gwen's rejection, decides to marry Ginny, even over Bama's objections. While she is not Dave's social or intellectual match, Dave recognizes that she gives him unconditional love that he's never had from anyone else. The two marry that night, but soon after they leave the judge's house, while walking among the crowds of the town's fair, Ray comes after them with a gun, shoots and injures Dave, and then shoots Ginny dead as she tries to protect Dave.
In the final scene, most of the main characters are in attendance at Ginny's funeral, but with Dave and Bama standing separately and at a distance.
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Bama does remove his hat in final scene, which he never took off, as a show of respect. Much of the film was shot in and around the town of Madison, Indiana.
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Shirley MacLaine reported that Sinatra was "besieged" by the local Indiana women, and that at one point a woman broke through a rope barrier around a house and flung herself at Sinatra as her husband ran to stop her, pleading "Helen, you don't even know the man! One significant change from the James Jones novel was the death of Ginny; in the novel, it is Dave who is shot in the face and killed by the character of Ray. Released to critical plaudits, Some Came Running was praised both nationally and internationally on release, with Sinatra garnering some of the strongest notices of his career.
Variety noted that "Sinatra gives a top performance, sardonic and compassionate, full of touches both instinctive and technical. It is not easy, either, to play a man dying of a chronic illness and do it with grace and humor, and this Martin does without faltering. The film was popular with the public. At the 31st Academy Awards , the film received the following nominations: Martin Scorsese included a clip from the film for his A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies ; the film's final carnival scene remains for Scorsese one of the best and most expressive uses of CinemaScope.
He later filmed a short segment for Turner Classic Movies on its influence on cinema. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Some Came Running Original theatrical release poster. John Patrick Arthur Sheekman. British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved October 4, Probable Domestic Take", Variety , January 6, , p.
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I wouldn't go that far but it's certainly in the mix, the pinnacle of the fifties melodrama. Some came running out of the theater after seeing this movie, others demanded their money back. This movie seemed like it was going somewhere for the longest time, but just didn't, it's disappointing. More Top Movies Trailers Forums. Season 7 Black Lightning: Season 2 DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Season 4 Doctor Who: Season 11 The Flash: Season 5 This Is Us: Season 3 Saturday Night Live: Season 4 The Walking Dead: Weekend Box Office Results: Some Came Running View All Photos 8.
Set in the aftermath of World War II, the film stars Sinatra as a recently discharged soldier whose promising writing career has derailed. After a drunken card game, Sinatra finds himself aboard a bus for his Indiana hometown of Parktown, with recent acquaintance Shirley MacLaine in tow. An unrefined good-time girl, MacLaine allows her affections to settle on the hard-drinking Sinatra, who wants little to do with her as he reluctantly sets about re-establishing ties he thought to have abandoned over a decade before.
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These include a brother Arthur Kennedy unable to discard his salesman's persona, his disapproving wife Leora Dana , and their teenage daughter Betty Lei Keim. Meanwhile, Sinatra makes a variety of new acquaintances both respectable and otherwise, including a local gambler Dean Martin and a creative writing instructor Martha Hyer smitten with his writing and possibly with him. Shaking up the complacency of his small hometown more by accident than design, Sinatra forces all those around him to reevaluate their behavior.
After a variety of smaller parts, this is the role that cemented MacLaine's name, earning her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress. Arthur Sheekman , John Patrick. Frank Sinatra as Dave Hirsh. Dean Martin as Bama Dillert. Shirley MacLaine as Ginnie Moorehead.
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Martha Hyer as Gwen French. Arthur Kennedy as Frank Hirsh. Nancy Gates as Edith Barclay. Leora Dana as Agnes Hirsh. Betty Lou Keim as Dawn Hirsh. Larry Gates as Prof. Steven Peck as Raymond Lanchak. Connie Gilchrist as Jane Barclay. Ned Wever as Smitty. Carmen Phillips as Rosalie.
John Brennan as Wally Dennis. William Schallert as Al. Roy Engel as Sheriff. Marion Ross as Sister Mary Joseph. Denny Miller as Dewey Cole. Chuck Courtney as Hotel clerk. Paul Jones as George Huff.
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