History Film / SomeCameRunning

''Some Came Running'' is a 1958 drama film directed by Creator/VincenteMinnelli, starring Music/FrankSinatra, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Arthur Kennedy, Music/DeanMartin, and Martha Hyer.

[[TheFilmOfTheBook Based on a novel]] by James Jones, who had a previous bestseller with ''From Here to Eternity'', which was also [[Literature/FromHereToEternity made into a movie]] starring Frank Sinatra. Music/ElmerBernstein composed the music.

* WritersBlock: Dave has been plagued with this for many years. As the movie opens he is struggling to break out of it with a new story.

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Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is an alcoholic soldier, freshly discharged from the Army. He once had a career as an author, and published two books, but drinking and writer's block have left his writing career moribund. He drinks too much one night and wakes up the next morning in a bus that has just arrived in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, where he is making his first visit in 16 years. With him is Ginny Moorehead ([=MacLaine=]), a dim-witted but attractive and affectionate girl who has accompanied Dave to Parkman because she likes him and also because she is trying to escape Ray, a mobster creep who has been stalking her. Dave tries to put Ginny on a bus back to Chicago, but she sticks around.

Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is an alcoholic soldier, freshly discharged from the Army. He once had a career as an author, and published two books, but drinking and writer's block have left his writing career moribund. He drinks too much one night and wakes up the next morning in a bus that has just arrived in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, where he is making his first visit in 16 years. With him is Ginny Moorehead ([=MacLaine=]), a dim-witted but attractive and affectionate girl who has accompanied him to Parkman because she likes him and also because she is trying to escape Ray, a mobster creep who has been stalking her. Dave tries to put Ginny on a bus back to Chicago, but she sticks around.

Based on a novel by James Jones, who had a previous bestseller with ''From Here to Eternity'', which was also [[Literature/FromHereToEternity made into a movie]] starring Frank Sinatra. Music/ElmerBernstein composed the music.

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''Some Came Running'' is a 1958 film directed by Creator/VincenteMinnelli, starring Music/FrankSinatra, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Arthur Kennedy, Music/DeanMartin, and Martha Hyer.

* WritersBlock: Dave has been plagued with this for many years. As the movie opens he is struggling to break out of it with a new story.
* YourCheatingHeart: Frank cheats on his wife with his secretary.

Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is an alcoholic soldier, freshly discharged from the Army. He once had a career as an author, and published two books, but drinking and writer's block have left his writing career moribund. He drinks too much one night and wakes up the next morning in a bus that has just arrived in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, where he is making his first visit in 16 years. With him is Ginny ([=MacLaine=]), a dim-witted but attractive and affectionate girl who has accompanied him to Parkman because she likes him and also because she is trying to escape Ray, a mobster creep who has been stalking her. Dave tries to put Ginny on a bus back to Chicago, but she sticks around.

Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is an alcoholic soldier, freshly discharged from the Army. He once had a career as an author, and published two books, but drinking and writer's block have left his writing career moribund. He drinks too much one night and wakes up the next morning in a bus that has just arrived in his hometown of Parkman, Indiana. It is his first visit to his home town in 16 years. With him is Ginny ([=MacLaine=]), a dim-witted but attractive and affectionate girl who has accompanied him to Parkman because she likes him and also because she is trying to escape Ray, a mobster creep who has been stalking her. Dave tries to put Ginny on a bus back to Chicago, but she sticks around.

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** Dave. When he's challenged over his request for liquor in the morning, Dave says "I don't watch a clock."

** Notably worse is Bama, who packs a whole suitcase full of liquor for a trip to Terre Haute, admits to drinking a fifth of whiskey or more a day, and is told by a doctor that his drinking has given him diabetes.

* TheAlcoholic: Dave. When he's challenged over his request for liquor in the morning, Dave says "I don't watch a clock."

Dave Hirsh (Sinatra) is an alcoholic soldier, freshly discharged from the Army. He once had a career as an author, and published two books, but drinking and writer's block have left his writing career moribund. He drinks too much one night and wakes up the next morning in a bus that has just arrived in his hometown of Parkman, somewhere in FlyoverCountry. It is his first visit to his home town in 16 years. With him is Ginny ([=MacLaine=]), a dim-witted but attractive and affectionate girl who has accompanied him to Parkman because she likes him and also because she is trying to escape Ray, a mobster creep who has been stalking her. Dave tries to put Ginny on a bus back to Chicago, but she sticks around.

* LettingHerHairDown: Dave taking out the pins in Gwen's hair and letting her blond locks fall down leads immediately to sex.

Based on a novel by James Jones, who had a previous bestseller with ''From Here to Eternity'', which was also [[Film/FromHereToEternity made into a movie]] starring Frank Sinatra.

* WritersBlock: Dave has been plagued with this for many years. As the movie opens he is struggling to break out of it with a new story.

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: Dave wakes up hung over in his hometown, accompanied by Ginny, with no memory of meeting her or getting on a bus.

''Some Came Running'' is a 1958 film directed by Creator/VincenteMinelli, starring Music/FrankSinatra, Creator/ShirleyMacLaine, Arthur Kennedy, Music/DeanMartin, and Martha Hyer.