Trailblazing drama scored by the late Elmer Bernstein , and starring Frank Sinatra and Kim Novak . Chicago: card dealer and heroin addict Frankie Machine has just got out of jail. He returns to his old haunts determined to kick his habits and become a musician. But the pressures of dealing with a wife in a wheelchair, a pusher and the woman he really loves stack the deck against him. Review page 45.
Director Otto Preminger (1955, 15) (BW)