Some Came Running

‘The Rat Pack makes its first appearance on the big screen in this film adaptation of James Jones’ novel about post-war disillusionment – set in a small town in Indiana. Frank Sinatra plays the veteran Dave Hirsh, who returns to his sleepy hometown on the River Ohio, where he finds himself torn between the middle-class world of his brother, a jeweller, and his lover, a teacher, and the party scene on the other side of the tracks, dominated by the laid-back gambler Alabama (Dean Martin) and Ginny (Shirley MacLaine) – that loving working-class lady who followed Dave from Chicago (…). One of the greatest American films of the 1950s.’ (Metrograph)

‘When I was 23, I happened to stumble upon a university screening of Vincente Minnelli’s Some Came Running (…). The film had a lasting impact on me (…). Every time I watch it, I find myself reflecting anew on these characters. It’s like Citizen Kane – every time you watch it, it’s a different film.” (Richard Linklater, The Guardian)