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

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