22. Censorship: The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

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Support the show! Otto Preminger’s The Man with the Golden Arm takes an early look at drug addiction as its makers pushed against the by-then gradually weakening restrictions of the Hays Code.  We discuss the film’s wish-fulfillment plotline as well as Frank Sinatra’s turn as a surprisingly talented actor. Sources Bloom, Rachel in “The Man with the Golden Arm” from Senses of Cinema: http://sensesofcinema.com/2013/cteq/the-man-with-the-golden-arm/ Dee, Jonathan in “Nelson Algren’s Street Cred” from The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/15/nelson-algrens-street-cred Thompson, Lang in “The Man with the Golden Arm (1956)” from TCM: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/3720/The-Man-with-the-Golden-Arm/articles.html#00 Wikipedia