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Release Date:
18 December 1958 (USA)
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Tagline:
Dave was back and the whole town knew that trouble- and women- were close behind!
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Plot:
Dave Hirsch, a writer and army veteran, returns to 1948 Parkman, Indiana, his hometown. His prosperous brother introduces him to Gwen French...
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Awards:
Nominated for 5 Oscars.
Another 7 wins
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1 nomination
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User Comments:
Godard always had the best taste.
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Additional Details
Runtime:
137 min
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Trivia:
"Some Came Running" is taken from the Gospel of St. Mark (Chapter 10:17), which author
James Jones used as an epigraph before the beginning of the novel. It reads: "And when he was gone forth into the way, there came one running, and kneeled to him, and asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?" Jones also used the image of running to begin the novel's prologue, as Dave Hirsh remembers German soldiers attacking during the Battle of the Bulge; "They came running through the fog across the snow, lumbering, the long rifles held up awkwardly high..."
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Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: Frank Sinatra's Army uniform lacks rank insignia. It is also without brass collar disks (U.S. emblem on one side and an infantry branch emblem on the other). Sinatra's character obviously served in the infantry, since he wears the Combat Infantryman's Badge above his left shirt pocket.
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Quotes:
Gwen French:
Oh, Dave, we've met exactly three times. What do I know about you? What do you know about me?
Dave Hirsh:
I just know that I'm the kid who wants to marry you. Gwen, it's something I want more than anything else in the world.
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Soundtrack:
To Love And Be Loved
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Typical Minnelli masterpiece, as melodramatic, emotional and stylised as his more famous musicals. Lumpen James Jones novel stripped to the bone, its macho posturings shifted to anatomy of a society. Slow, repetitive narrative mirrors stagnation of such a society. Impotence, disease and writer's block all part of a wider malaise. The psychological visuals are unsurpassed, gaudy, intense floods of light, colour and composition disrupt superficial politeness. Climax one of the greatest in American cinema; the three male leads do the most difficult work of their careers. Shirley MacLaine gets hard deal, though.