L'Homme au bras d'or (1955)
Frankie Machine revient dans son quartier après un séjour dans un centre de désintoxication. Là-bas il y a appris la batterie où un ami lui annonça qu'il avait un don pour les percussions. Enthousiasmé il va tenter de contacter un impresario pour devenir batteur, ce que sa femme Zosh, dans un fauteuil roulant depuis un accident de voiture, ne souhaite pas afin que Frankie reste auprès d'elle. Mais malheureusement d'anciennes mauvaises fréquentations reviennent vers lui et le font rapidement replonger dans la drogue. Frankie est alors tiraillé entre les dealeurs envers qui il a des dettes et doit pour rembourser être donneur au poker pendant de longues veillées, entre sa femme qui sent que Frankie ne se soucie plus d'elle et qu'il va la quitter, et entre son amie Molly qui tente de le sortir de la drogue...
Directeur:
Otto Preminger
écrivains:
Walter Newman, Lewis Meltzer.
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Frank Sinatra as Frankie Machine |
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Eleanor Parker as Zosh Machine |
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Kim Novak as Molly |
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Arnold Stang as Sparrow |
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Darren McGavin as Louie |
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Robert Strauss as Schwiefka |
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John Conte as Drunky |
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Doro Merande as Vi |
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George E. Stone as Sam Markette |
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George Mathews as Williams |
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Leonid Kinskey as Dominiwski |
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Emile Meyer as Detective Bednar |
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Shorty Rogers as Band Leader |
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Shelly Manne as Drummer |
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Herschel Graham as Club Safari Patron (uncredited) |
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Frank Mills as Street Vagrant (uncredited) |
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Harry 'Snub' Pollard as Street Vagrant (uncredited) |
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Jeffrey Sayre as Club Safari Patron (uncredited) |
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Jered Barclay as |
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Leonard Bremen as |
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Paul E. Burns as |
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Pete Candoli as |
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Harold 'Tommy' Hart as |
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Mike Lally as |
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Frank Marlowe as |
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Joe McTurk as |
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Gordon Mitchell as |
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Jack Mulhall as |
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Ralph Neff as |
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Norman Papson as |
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Ernest Raboff as |
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Frank Richards as |
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Suzanne Ridgway as |
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Charles Seel as |
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Martha Wentworth as |
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Will Wright as |
| Directing | Otto Preminger | Director |
| Production | Otto Preminger | Producer |
| Writing | Walter Newman | Screenplay |
| Writing | Lewis Meltzer | Screenplay |
| Sound | Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Sam Leavitt | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Louis R. Loeffler | Editor |
| Art | Joseph C. Wright | Production Design |
| Art | Darrell Silvera | Set Decoration |
| Production | Jack McEdward | Production Manager |
| Crew | Helen Thurston | Stunts |
| Camera | Albert Myers | Camera Operator |
| Crew | Paul Baxley | Stunts |
| Crew | Martha Crawford | Stunt Double |
| Writing | Nelson Algren | Novel |
| Sound | Leon Birnbaum | Music Editor |
| Production | Max Slater | Producer's Assistant |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mary Ann Nyberg | Costume Supervisor |
| Sound | Jack Solomon | Sound Engineer |
| Directing | Horace Hough | Assistant Director |
| Directing | James Engle | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Kathleen Fagan | Script Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Joe King | Wardrobe Master |
| Costume & Make-Up | Adele Parmenter | Wardrobe Master |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jack Stone | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bernard Ponedel | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ben Lane | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Helene Parrish | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Hazel Keats | Hairstylist |
| Lighting | James Almond | Lighting Technician |
| Camera | Morris Rosen | Key Grip |
| Art | Saul Bass | Title Designer |
| Crew | Ben Hecht | Additional Writing |