Going home. For ex-GI and sometime writer Dave Hirsh those words are bittersweet at best. He returns to Indiana in the years after WWII with $5,500 in his pocket ... and a lot of bad memories to erase.
Frank Sinatra and Shirely MacLaine star in the screen version of James Jone's novel Some Came Running, a powerful drama of small-town hypocrisy and one man's fight to live on his own terms. Sinatra, an Oscar winner for his performance in the movie based on another Jones work, From Here To Eternity, is "downright fasinating... shockingly frank" (Bosley Crowther, The New York Times) as Dave.
But perhaps most memorable of all is Shirley MacLaine in a role she lists among her favorites. As a sweet-natured, air-headed goodtime gal. MacLaine earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination (one of the film's five nominations), reinforcing Sinatra's assertion that "she has so much pathos, she can take a piece of comedy and turn it around and make you bust out crying."
