Frank Sinatra, The Man with the Golden Arm
“I was afraid that nobody out there could play it and that Preminger would crap it up. But Sinatra was Frankie Machine just the way I wrote him in the book.” ~ Nelson Algren (author, The Man With the Golden Arm)
The 1955 movie was directed by Otto Preminger (who didn’t “crap it up” lmao) and stars Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, and Eleanor Parker.
You can find The Man with the Golden Arm on dvd or Blu-ray (Amazon link) or watch the movie on Prime Video.
Frank Sinatra, The Man with the Golden Arm