Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Holstra Boring, long, and too preachy.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

frankwiener The central character, Dave Hirsh (Frank Sinatra), is a returning Army veteran. In a state of drunkenness, he and his "floozy of the moment" Ginnie Moorhead (Shirley Maclaine) are placed on a Greyhound bus in Chicago. Whether Dave likes it or not, the destination is his hometown of Parkman, Indiana.As a talented writer who also enjoys the fast lane, Dave is torn between two totally conflicting worlds. One world is that of a perceptive writer who has the ability to observe life with intellectual depth. The other world is a much more shallow, superficial place, consisting of reckless drinking, gambling, and whoring without any consideration for a more meaningful, responsible existence or for the future. The only focus of this second world is just having a good time, no matter what the consequences may be.Dave's brother, Frank (Arthur Kennedy), is a "respectable" businessman in the town, at least on the surface. He sits on the board of a local bank and belongs to the local country club. While he pretends to be a dedicated family man, he is having a sexual relationship with an employee, so his status as an upstanding member of his community is only skin deep. When Dave attracts some negative publicity, Frank is only concerned about how the scandal will affect the appearance of his false image of respectability. He doesn't regard for a moment Dave's difficult adjustment problems as a returning veteran. The very real troubles of his brother are none of Frank's concern.Frank introduces Dave to the Frenches, a father and daughter, who are members of the local intelligentsia. The Frenches encourage Dave to sell a story to a literary publication, which ultimately meets with success, and Dave finds that he has fallen in love with Gwen French, the daughter who teaches English literature at the local college. In the meantime, Dave continues to carouse with his drinking and gambling buddies while a devoted Ginnie, the floozy, attaches herself permanently to his side like a lost puppy. Gwen views Dave's other, very careless world with much disdain, and she rejects him as a result. In a rash moment of deep loneliness, Dave proposes to Ginnie, the only person who seems to care about him.Dave's two conflicting worlds violently collide when Ginnie reads his published story without understanding a word of it. When Dave demands that she explain what she read, she exclaims, "I don't understand you either, but that don't mean that I don't like you. I love you! But I don't understand you!" Great acting here by both Sinatra and Maclaine with well written dialogue that hits a home run out of the park.This is a story of extreme social alienation and of the inner psychological torment that accompanies it. Although some reviewers have commented about its being "dated from the Eisenhower era", the conflict experienced by Dave Hirsh is a very timeless and very painful one.I appreciated Mr. Minelli's perfectionist directing style, at least in this instance. From the very beginning, the lush Ohio River Valley and the real town of Madison, Indiana as seen through the windows of the Greyhound bus creates a very unique and credible feel to the movie. With the help of Elmer Bernstein's powerful musical score, the ironic carnival sequence at the end, so carefully staged by the director, produces just the right degree of tension and high drama that are necessary for the film's very tragic end. This one hasn't aged over time. I highly recommend it.

jfarms1956 Some Came Running is a film geared for those who are the baby boomers with some enjoyment possible by those who like the older films. It is had to go too wrong in any film when you have actors/actresses such as Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Shirley MacLaine, and Arthur Kennedy. With such a mix, the movie can't help but be entertaining to watch. The musical score and background are highly appropriate and at times, good. Some Came Running is just a little bit too long and could have been edited don about 15 minutes. The movie is a prime time movie. The movie's pace is okay. The movie does allow one to enjoy popcorn while watching. Enjoy!

alexandre michel liberman (tmwest) I saw this film when released in 1957 and really did not like it. I knew people were impressed with Shirley McLaine's acting but to a young guy like me it missed the emotion of a "rat pack" film, which I thought it was. I never gave too much thought to this film, but recently I read that the "Cahiers du Cinema" had placed it among the 100 all time best films ever made. Noticing it was going to be shown on TV I saw it and was amazed. All the actors are excellent and so is Minneli's direction, apart from the last scenes of the killer going wild, this film did not age. The beauty of the film is in the characters. First there is Arthur Kennedy and his wife trying to climb up the social ladder in what we could describe as an "obsessive " way, but that was so typical of a small town in America in the fifties. Then there are Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, the outcasts, but which still fit the category of the bohemians kind of barely accepted . But then comes Shirley McLaine which does not fit anywhere, at first sight you would classify her as a tramp, but she is not one at all, she is just a wonderful person, too naive in her ways, but trying to survive a hard life. She breaks all the rules, she is the opposite of Martha Hyer a compulsive conventional person. When Frank Sinatra, after being rejected by Hyer, decides to marry Shirley, he is accepting the unconventional, specially when he knows he can help. This film is predicting the social changes that would come in the seventies and that would change America. Shirley McLaine as Ginnie Moorehead was standing for all that.

nimbus13 This movie was made in Madison, Indiana when I was a teenager.I lived about 20 miles north of Madison.The production company was looking for a crowd for the street carnival scene in the movie. Some of my family thought it might be interesting to go down and mingle in the crowd and we might end up in the movie. However, something came up and we couldn't go.I saw the movie shortly after it was released and have seen it a couple of times since and was not overly impressed with the storyline or the dialog(very derivative). I was not impressed with Frank Sinatra, at all. However, Shirley Maclaine and Dean Martin were very good in the supporting roles.The cinematography, however, is excellent.Madison is located in a very green, rolling, area of Indiana on the Ohio River and is very lush, and the background of the Ohio River shot over the characters shoulders in the cemetery, in Kentucky, captures the beauty of the area. The photography at the Lanier Mansion (1844) definitely captured the affluence of the character that lives there in the movie.