The Man with the Golden Arm

(Otto Preminger, 1955)
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Six month clean heroin addict, Sinatra, arrives in the lower side of town, surrounded instantly by temptation, with signs for liquor, drugs, beer and girls. 

His girlfriend, Sash, is wheelchair bound, as a result of his actions under the influence of heroin. She waits for him each day in an attic bedsit, understandably a bit mad and paranoid. It soon becomes clear that Sash is pretending to be disabled in order to keep Frankie to herself and away from the, by comparison, glamorous Molly, a dancer with whom he has history. The attic room is dull and cluttered and doesn't offer much excitement.

Frankie occasionally visits a shop window, showing an ideal middle-class kitchen, accentuating his longing for a better quality of living, away from temptation. The temptation though is only emphasized by the soundtrack and the great, booming brass interludes as he injects again and again.